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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark grey, smooth and thin irregularly scaly when mature. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets angular to subterete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules foliacous with keeled back, interpetiolar, caducous and leaving scar; petioles 1-4 cm long, canaliculate in cross section, glabrous; lamina 16 x 10 cm, ovate, elliptic-obovate to orbiculate, apex abruptly acuminate with blunt tip, rarely acute, base acute to attenuate to subcordate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 6-10 pairs, hairy domatia present at axils; tertiary_nerves distantly obliquely reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal head; flowers sessile, cream-white; calyx lobes short. |
Fruit& seed : | Capsules, arranged in globose heads, each with 2-folicular cocci; seeds many, winged. |