Parinari costata subsp. costata
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Description
Tree to 60 m tall, trunk buttressed up to 2 m, the young branches densely appressed tomentellous, glabrescent, with small conspicuous lenticels.
Leaves coriaceous or rigidly chartaceous, elliptic, subovate-elliptic to oblong (leaf index 1.7-2.7), 5-10.5 by 1.8-4 cm, glabrous above when mature but with sparse lanate covering when very young, with stomatal cavities filled with grey lanate pubescence beneath, acuminate at apex, the tip 3-5 mm long, round to sub-cuneate at base;
Stipules lanceolate, membranaceous, 3-7 mm long, pilose on exterior, early caducous.
Inflorescences of predominantly axillary or terminal few-flowered lax panicles to 8 cm long, the rachis and branches appressed grey to brown appressed tomentellous;
Petals white, spathulate, 1.5-2 mm long, caducous, glabrous.
Stamens IS, with small tooth-like staminodes opposite, slightly unequal;
Fruit ellipsoid, to 3.5 by 4.5 cm;