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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literatures
Habit : | Large trees, often buttressed, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark fissured. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets rough, stout, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex dirty white turns to black. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous, with a pair of caducous spurs; lamina 6.5-16 x 3-5 cm, oblanceolate to narrow obovate, apex rounded or sometimes emarginate, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire or sometimes revolute when dry, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat or raised above; secondary_nerves 6-11 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence terminal panicle, dark purple-brown tomentose; flowers polygamous, petals ovate, pubescent inside. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, ellipsoid-oblong, striate (usually after drying) 3.8 x 1.5 cm, 1-seeded. |