Xanthophyllum contractum
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Description
Tree, flowering on older twigs from adventitious axillary buds.
Leaf-blade 14-20 by 6.5-8 cm, apex obtuse to very shortly acuminate;
Inflorescences up to 4 cm long;
Flowers unknown.
Fruit (immature) c. 3 mm stipitate, ovoid, c. 2 by 1.2 cm, more or less fleshy, finely pustulate, light reddish, glabrous;
Seed 1 (sub)apical, developing from one of the 12 opposite ovules which are situated only in the apical half of the young fruit.