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Habit : | Small trees, up to 8 m tall. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete with scars of fallen leaves, puberulous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.6-1.2 cm long, flat above, glabrous; lamina 4-15 x 2.3-7.5 cm, obovate, apex obtuse or rounded, base cuneate, margin undulate, coriaceous, glabrous, midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 5-8 pairs; tertiary_nerves reticulo-percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Flower heads in terminal panicles, purple. |
Fruit and Seed : | Achenes ribbed with yellow glands; 1-seeded. |