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Description
Branch
Fruiting branch
Habit
Fruit cut
Buttress
Fruit cut
Leaf upper side
Bark cut
Flowers on old branches
Petiole and leaf insertion
Fruit
Flower
Scaly
Leaf lower side
Scaly
Flowers
Leaf base
Habit
Large evergreen trees, buttressed, up to 40 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark greyish white smooth when young later flaky.
Branches and Branchlets
Young branchlets covered by golden brown peltate scales.
Leaves
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole terete, peltate scales, 1.5 cm long; lamina 7.5-16 (-25.5) x 2.7-6.2 (-7.6) cm, narrow oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex slightly acuminate, base rounded-retuse, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous and smooth above, lower surface covered by peltate scales; midrib canaliculate above; secondary and tertiary nerves obscure.
Inflorescence / Flower
Flowers covered by golden brown scales, clustered on older branches.
Fruit and Seed
Capsule, echinate, globose, to 12.7 cm across, 5-valved; seeds brown, many.
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Common canopy trees in medium elevation wet evergreen forests between 600-1400 m.
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Description
Endemic to the Western Ghats- all along South Sahyadri and up to Wayanad in Central Sahyadri.
