| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Malvaceae |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Trees, to 15 m tall; branches slender, terete; young branches stellately rusty tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules 5 mm long, free, lateral, linear, minutely stellate-hairy, caducous; petiole 2-3 mm long, slender ; lamina 6-16× 4-11 cm, broadly ovate, shallowly 3-lobed towards apices; base round or truncate; margin entire, serrulate or wavy; lateral nerves 2-3 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae scalariform. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary and terminal lax panicles; involucellar bracts 5, 10-13 × 5-6 mm, elliptic-obtuse, connate at base, minutely stellate hairy, nerves raised outside; calyx 5-parted, 5 mm long, divided to above the middle ; petals 5, 8 × 4 mm, narrowly obovate, connate at base, minutely hairy on margins and base; anthers 10, reniform; ovary superior, 2-3 locular, ovules one in each locule; style 8 mm long, slender, dilated and hirsute towards apex, 2-3 branched; stigma peltate, rugose. Fruit a capsule,black . |