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Trees, medium to tall, 30[-40] m tall, glabrous. Leaves rigid, distichous; petiole to 1.2 cm; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, ovate to oblong, broad, 12-15 × 5-7 cm, abaxially glaucous, lateral veins [12-]20-24 pairs, base cordate, apex shortly acuminate. Corymbs 3-20-flowered, drooping at ends of branches; pedicels 3-4 cm, stout. Floral tube broadly campanulate, 1.6-2.5 × 1.8-3 cm; sepals (5 or)6, green, thick, enlarged in fruit. Petals 6, white, obovate, 2.5-3 × 1.5-2 cm. Stamens numerous, ca. 50 or more, white, surpassing petals. Capsules subglobose, 3-4 × [3-]4-4.5 cm, 6-9-valved. Seeds 4-6 mm. Fl. spring. 2n = 48.

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1. (c) Scamperdale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/36517976@N06/15602330032/
2. (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2120055672/
3. (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2114989246/
4. (c) scott.zona, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottzona/14251950810/
5. (c) Dinesh Valke, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2442351391/
6. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4975116

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
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