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Tree to 30 m. Bark rough throughout, soft, spongy, subfibrous, red-brown. Juvenile leaves ovate. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate; lamina 10–16 cm long, 2.7–4.5 cm wide; lateral veins fine, at 50°–60°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole 20–35 mm long. Umbels 9–15-flowered; peduncle broadly flattened, 13–30 mm long; pedicels angular, 1–9 mm long, sometimes absent. Buds rostrate or ±fusiform; operculum conical, rostrate, 10–12 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 6–7 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, sometimes slightly constricted in the middle, 10–18 mm long, 6–11 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 3 or 4, usually included and joined across the orifice, sometimes level or slightly exserted.
Tree to 30 m with red-brown soft spongy subfibrous rough bark throughout.. Juvenile leaves ovate; adult discolorous, broadly [ovate-lanceolate] lanceolate, 10–16[20] cm long, 2.7–4.5[8] cm wide; petiole 2–3.5 mm long.. Umbels 9–15-flowered; peduncle broadly flattened, 1.3–3[3.5] cm long; pedicels angular, 1–9[12] mm long or absent.. Buds rostrate or ± fusiform; operculum conical, rostrate, 10–12 mm long, 6–8 mm wide.. Calyx-tube obconical, 6–7 mm long, 6–8 mm wide.. Fruits cylindrical, [8]10–18 mm long, 6–11[12] mm wide, sometimes slightly constricted in the middle or near apex, with broad descending disc and 3–4 valves usually included and joined across the orifice or flush or slightly exserted.. Fig. 9/35, p. 45.
Umbels mostly axillary, 5–10-flowered; peduncles 2–3 x 0·6 cm., compressed and strap-shaped; pedicels very stout, gradually merging into the receptacle; flower buds c. 2·8 x 0·7 cm. (including the pedicel), fusiform; operculum conoidal-rostrate, at least as long as the receptacle.
A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The bark is rough and fibrous. The fruit are 1.5 cm long by 1 cm wide. They have
Leaves up to 17 x 6 cm., dark green above, pale green beneath, broadly lanceolate, attenuate-acuminate.
Fruit c. 1·5 x 1 cm., cyathiform; valves 3–4, inserted just below the orifice.
Bark rough, subfibrous, persistent throughout.
Tall tree.
