| Description : | Trees tall. Young branches grayish brown, glabrous, densely white lenticellate; current year branchlets yellowish pubescent, longitudinally ribbed; terminal buds white velutinous. Petiole yellowish villous; leaf blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, leathery, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex bluntly acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or to 3 in a cluster, white, fragrant, Pedicel 1-1.5 cm, gray pubescent, white lenticellate; bracteoles 2, caducous. Sepals lunate to semiorbicular.Petals white, broadly obovate, Stamens 8-10 mm; filaments basally adnate with petals. Ovary globose, yellowish tomentose but apically glabrous; style glabrous; stigma 5, capitate. Capsule brown, subglobose, 5-loculed with 2 seeds per locule; pericarp woody, Seeds reniform. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Nov-Dec. |
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