A much-branched shrub or tree up to 12 m., with a Terminalia-like habit.. Bark almost smooth, light grey or brownish.. Wood soft, white.. Branchlets having the inter-nodes very variable in length, pubescent at first, later glabrescent.. Leaves crowded at the tips of the branchlets, interspersed with bract-like scales; stipules narrowly linear-lanceolate, 5–7 mm. long, pubescent; petioles 2–8 mm. long; stipels setaceous, 3–4 mm. long, glabrous; blade oblanceolate, 4–10.5(–18) cm. long, 1.5–5(–9) cm. wide, obtuse, narrowly rounded or shallowly subcordate, shallowly glandular-serrate or-crenate-serrate, glands red, chartaceous, lateral nerves 10–14 on each side of the midrib, scarcely prominent above, slightly prominent beneath, glabrous or subglabrous above, pubescent on the midrib and lateral nerves and with tufts of hairs in the axils of the lateral nerves beneath.. Bract-like scales triangular, 2.5–3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, acute, entire, glandular on the margin, densely pubescent without, ± glabrous within.. Male inflorescences up to 9 cm. long, laxly flowered; axis glabrous or subglabrous; bracts narrowly triangular, otherwise like the scales, 1–5-flowered.. Female inflorescences up to 11 cm. long, very laxly 2–4(–6)-flowered.. Male flowers: pedicels 0.5–1 cm. long, glabrous; buds ovoid-subglobose, apiculate, sparingly pubescent, 1.5 mm. diameter, creamy whitish; calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, 1.5 mm. long, pale yellow; stamens 1.5–2 mm. long, filaments purple, anthers 0.5 mm. long, pallid, purple-tinged at the apex; glands 0.3 mm. across, dark purple.. Female flowers: pedicels 2–3 cm. long, articulate, geniculate at the joint, glabrous or sparingly pubescent towards the top; sepals in the fruiting stage broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 2–6 mm. long, 1–4 mm. wide, obtuse, entire, strongly triplinerved, glabrous or subglabrous; staminodes minute; disc thin, 1.5 mm. diameter; ovary-size not known; styles 1 mm. long, pubescent at the base, glabrous distally.. Fruit 0.5–0.6 cm. long, 1 cm. diameter, minutely and shallowly tuberculate, sparingly or evenly pubescent, bluish grey.. Seeds 4 mm. diameter, smooth, purplish brown, slightly mottled.. Fig. 43.
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Leaf blade 4–18(25) × 1.5–7(10) cm, oblanceolate, obtuse at the apex, narrowed to a rounded or cordulate base, shallowly glandular-serrate or crenate-serrate on the margins, glabrous on upper surface, pubescent at first on the midrib and with domatial hair tufts beneath; lateral nerves in 10–16 pairs.
Female flowers: pedicels 2–3 cm long, geniculate; sepals in the fruiting stage 2–6 × 1–4 mm, broadly elliptic to elliptic-ovate, obtuse, strongly triplinerved, ± glabrous; staminodes minute; disk 1.5 mm in diameter, thin; ovary size not known; styles 1 mm long, pubescent at the base.
Male flowers: pedicels 0.5–1 cm long; buds 1.5 mm in diameter, subglobose, whitish; calyx lobes 1.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, pale yellow; stamens 1.5–2 mm long, filaments purple, anthers 0.5 mm long, purplish-tinged; disk glands numerous, dark purple.
Male inflorescences up to 7 cm long; axis ± glabrous; bracts 2–3 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, pubescent.
A much-branched shrub or small tree to 7 m high (with Terminalia branching).Bark ± smooth, light grey.
Fruit 5–6 × 10 mm, strongly 3-lobed, minutely tuberculate, sparingly or evenly pubescent, grey-green.
Scales 3 × 2 mm, triangular, acute, densely pubescent without, sparingly so within.
Female inflorescences up to 11 cm long, 2–6-flowered, otherwise as in the male.
Leaves interspersed with bract-like scales in the terminal clusters.
Stipules 5–7 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pubescent.
Seeds 4 mm in diameter, smooth, purplish-brown.
Stipels 3–4 mm long, setaceous, glabrous.
Internodes variable in length.
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