Description
Evergreen trees, to 8 m high; much branched with occasional stilt roots; pneumatophores numerous, straight, cylindrical, often forked with blunt tips; bark smooth, brownish-grey; branchlets terete, glabrous, pale brown, nodes swollen. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 10-18 mm long, stout, with a basal groove; lamina 3-10 x 2.5-5 cm, ovate, elliptic-obovate; base cuneate; apex obtuse; margin entire, glabrous above, silvery white tomentose beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, parallel, obscure; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, yellow, 1 x 1.5 cm, sessile, in terminal or axillary compound spikes, arranged in dense capitate units; peduncle upto 25 cm long, terete, silvery tomentose; bracts 3 x 3 mm, triangular, convex, green, black tipped with fringed margin, pubescent; bracteoles 2, similar to the bract, slightly smaller, bracts and bracteoles persistent; calyx brownish-green, sepals slightly united at base; lobes 5, to 5 x 4 mm, triangular, tip acute, pubescent, persistent; corolla yellow, glabrous within, densely pubescent side, thick, fleshy; tube to 4 mm long, lobes 4, to 6 x 5 mm, elliptic, unequal; stamens 4, filaments 3 mm long, flask shaped, slightly oblique, pubescent; ovary superior, imperfectly unilocular; ovules 4, pendulous, attached to the tip of central 4-winged axis; style 3 mm long, solid, gradually tapering; stigma unequally 2-lobed. Fruit a capsule 5 x 3.5 cm, mango-shaped, yellowish-green, flattened, apex acute with persistent stylar beak, pericarp thick, coriaceous, silvery tomentose; seed one.
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