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Habit : | Trees ca. 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brownish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets dark colored, terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petioles ca. 2 cm long; lamina 5.5-10 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate, apex gradually acute with blunt tip, base acute, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves ca. 8 pairs, oblique, prominent above; tertiary_nerves closely_horizontally_percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicles, in axillary fascicles, often 1-3 together, as long as or longer than leaves; flowers creamy-yellow, ca. 0.6 cm long. |
Fruit and Seed : | Nut, ca. 1.8 cm long, ovoid or ellipsoid, apiculate, smooth; calyx_accrescent with two longer and three smaller lobes; seed 1. |