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Habit : | Medium sized trees, up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark brown; blaze blackish. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Young branchlets terete, tomentose. |
Leaves : | Leaves alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.6-2.6 cm long, subterete, tomentose; lamina 8.5-19 x 4-11 cm, obovate or broadly-obovate, apex acute or abruptly, shortly acuminate, base cuneate to acute, margin entire or sometimes distantly double serrate with alternate small and large tooth, chartaceous, tomentose beneath; midrib tomentose above; secondary_nerves 10-15 pairs, looped near margin; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flowers in heads of large terminal panicled cymes, purple. |
Fruit and Seed : | Achene, ribbed; 1-seeded, pappus uniseriate. |