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Habit : | Trees up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown, scaly. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, pubescent when young. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole to 0.6 cm long, slightly canaliculate above, pubescent when young; lamina 4.5-10 x 1.5-3.5 cm, lanceolate or narrow ovate, apex narrow acute to gradually acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, margin entire, chartaceous, glabrous except few scattered hairs at margin and on midrib beneath; domatia at the axils of secondary_nerves, but not on all the leaves; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 5-12 pairs, raised above, lowest pair opposite and closer to the next secondary_nerve; tertiary_nerves closely_horizontally_percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence panicles, tomentose; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Nut with accrescent_calyx_lobes; seed 1. |