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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Status Literatures
Habit : | Large trees, buttressed, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown with irregularly large flaky peelings; blaze reddish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets slender, terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex dirty white. |
Leaves : | Simple, opposite, decussate; petiole slender 0.5-1.2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section; lamina 7.5-14 x 1.5-3.5 cm, narrow elliptic to narrow lanceolate, apex narrowly acuminate, base acute, margin entire, glaucous beneath; secondary_nerves many, slender, closely parallel, perpendicular to midrib, sometimes obscure. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers bisexual, solitary or in pairs, axillary; petals white; stamens many, orange yellow. |
Fruit and Seed : | Berry, ovoid to globose, apiculate, striate, 1-4 seeded. |