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Habit : | Trees up to 5 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, stellately tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite, decussate; stipules caducous; petiole 1-5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, swollen at both ends, stellate hairy; lamina 10.5-23 x 5.3-13 cm, ovate, apex acute-acuminate, base rounded, entire or slightly sinuate, yellow-glandular beneath; trinerved_at_base; secondary_nerves ca. 6 pairs; tertiary_nerves horizontally_percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers unisexual, in axillary spikes. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, 3-valved, minutely stellate hairy; seeds 3, brown. |