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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Tall, buttressed trees, up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark smooth, lenticellate, irregularly flaky when mature; blaze reddish brown. |
Branchlets : | Branches with architecture of “Aubreville_model”; young branchlets terete, puberulent, later glabrous. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule small, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 1.5- 3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, minutely puberulous when young; lamina 7-15 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-obovate or elliptic, apex caudate to acuminate with blunt tip, Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipule small, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 1.5- 3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, minutely puberulous when young; lamina 7-15 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-obovate or elliptic, apex caudate to acuminate with blunt tip, base cuneate to attenuate, margin undulate, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary nerves 8-12 pairs, slender; tertiary nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Flowers white, in axillary clusters or in pairs, on long pedicel up to 1.5 cm long; calyx with fulvous appressed hairs. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, narrow elliptic or ellipsoid to 5 x 2 cm; seed one. |