Botanical Name | Callophylum inophyllum L. |
Genus | Callophylum |
Family | Guttiferae |
Bole Characteristics | Usually medium-sized or small trees. Buttresses usually absent, occasionally with short buttresses, stilt roots, or pneumatophores. Bark usually with a yellowish or ochre tint, usually fissured, the fissures produce boat-shaped pattern, rarely smooth to cracking and scaly, when young smooth and lenticellate. |
Herbarium Characteristics | Leaves opposite, simple, broadly obovate, leaf apex rounded sometimes slightly emarginate, secondary veins close and parallel. |