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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Deciduous trees, up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish-brown, flaky when mature; blaze pink. |
Branchlets : | Young branchlets, terete, stellate and tawny tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; stipules ensiform, caducous and leaving scar; petiole 2-5 cm long, terete, stellate tawny tomentose, swollen at both ends; lamina 8-24 x 6.5-14 cm, elliptic-oblong to broadly elliptic or ovate, apex shortly acuminate, base rounded to cordate, margin entire, glabrous above, stellately tawny pubescent beneath; midrib canaliculate above; 3-5-nerved at base; secondary_nerves 6-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquely reticulo-percurrent. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence terminal or axillary racemes, densely stellately tawny pubescent; flowers polygamous, white with pink dots; pedicel 0.3 cm long. |
Fruit& seed : | Follicles of 1-5, woody, obovoid, 7.6 cm long, bright-red or scarlet, stellately villous, pink or scarlet within; seeds many, ovoid, black. |