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Habit : | Tall trees generally up to 40 m sometimes goes up to 60 m. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets subterete, stellate hairy. |
Exudates : | Exudates resinous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules caducous; petiole 2-3.5 cm, swollen at apex, nearly glabrous; lamina 8-27 x 4.5-10 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex abruptly acuminate or obtuse, base rounded to subcordate, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 13-20 pairs; curved near margin, impressed above; tertiary_nerves slender, closely_obliquely_percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence axillary panicles with dense stellate hairs; flowers white; anthers yellow. |
Fruit and Seed : | Capsule, pale brown, 3-valved, oblong to 6.4 x 3.8 cm, calyx_persistent, reflexed; seed 1. |