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Habit : | Trees, buttressed, up to 30 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, lenticellate; blaze cream with orange speckles. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete with annular scars of caducous stipules, glabrous; apical bud covered by sericeous lanceolate stipules. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1-3 cm long, stout and planoconvex in cross section; lamina 9.5-25 x 3.5-9 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate with twisted acumen, base acute to attenuate, margin slightly undulate, glabrous, chartaceous; midrib nearly flat above; secondary_nerves 12-16 pairs; tertiary_nerves closely and strongly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers solitary, axillary, large, yellow, fragrant. |
Fruit and Seed : | Follicles, warty, 2-3 cm long, arranged as spike, dehiscing dorsally; seed 1, scarlet. |