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Habit : | Large trees up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, irregularly large flaky, sometimes exfoliating; blaze reddish, smelling bitter almonds or bed bugs. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, puberulous, lenticellate. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipule caducous and leaving scar; petiole 0.6-2.8 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 7-17 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate to ovate -lanceolate, apex gradually acuminate with blunt tip, twisted, base rounded or asymmetric, sometimes attenuate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous, a pair of circular glands usually present near base beneath, sometimes present in upper half, rarely absent; midrib canaliculate above, reddish beneath; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs, reddish when young, ascending; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary racemes; flowers white. |
Fruit and Seed : | Drupe, shallowly 2-lobed, glabrous; seeds 2, compressed. |