A deciduous tree up to 25 m tall and 30 cm in diameter with a clear bole for about two-thirds of total tree height. The bark is generally gray, smooth, and 6-9 mm thick when young, but becomes brown and rough with longitudinal fissures with age. Leaves alternate; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate, 5-18 X 4-10 cm, papery to leathery, abaxially densely gray to glaucous stellate pubescent, adaxially glabrous except for veins, base rounded to cuneate, margin entire or apically serrate, apex shortly acuminate, secondary veins 5 or 6 pairs, tertiary veins subparallel. Racemes or panicles 3-10 cm; pedicel 5-10 mm. Flowers 1.2-2.5 cm; calyx cup-shaped, 3-5 mm, truncate to 5-toothed; corolla tube 3-4 mm; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 10-16 X 3-4 mm, membranous; filaments sparsely white stellate pubescent; anthers narrowly oblong; style ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous. Fruit subglobose, 1-1.2 cm in diam., densely gray stellate tomentose, apex apiculate to obtuse. Seeds chestnut brown, ovoid, densely tuberculate, stellate tomentose and pubescent.

Antiseptic, antiinflammatory, anti-spasmodic and expectorant

Pediatric Herb Compendium
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