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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous trees, bark fissured and flaky. Flowers with numerous stamens, twice as long as the petals, in three whorls, cream tinged purple-red at base. Fruit capsular, fleshy, seeds numerous. |
Habit : | Deciduous tree up to 20 m tall. |
Trunk & bark : | Bole straight in good sites, but often remaining stunted in poor sites. Bark fissured, flaking, greyish-brown. |
Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Twigs terete, glabrous. |
Exudates : | Exudate absent. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, glabrous, broadly obovate, apex obtuse with short tip, base attenuate into short petiole, margin finely toothed. Midrib flat above, secondary veins obtuse, widely parallel, tertiary veins oblique (ladder-like or percurent). Stipules absent. |
Inflorescences or flowers : | Flowers yellowish green with red purple stamens. Flowers arranged in an 1--10-flowered inflorescence, terminal on leafless twigs, bisexual, sessile. Stamens numerous, twice as long as the petals, in three whorls, cream tinged purple-red at base. |
Fruits : | Fruit capsule up to 6 cm, skin leathery, pulp fleshy, not splitting. |
Seeds : | Seeds many. |