Whitmorea grandiflora
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Description
Spreading canopy tree, 6-25 (-30) m, bole straight, up to 12 m, up to 50 cm ø, with slender and weak pneumatophores in wet places;
Branchlets robust, often covered with resinous exudation as are the inflorescences.
Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, apex obtuse or slightly emarginate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous, firm, shining green above, dull and greyish or yellowish green beneath, glabrous, 14-22 by 4-8(-12) cm, nerves in 20-25 pairs, straight and parallel to each other, slightly raised on both faces, reticulation dense, visibly raised above only;
Inflorescences axillary, solitary, with 3 or 4 secondary peduncles (1-3 cm) crosswise and umbellately spreading from top of main peduncle (2.5-4 cm by 1.5-2 mm), flowers several, close together, scorpioid, uni- or biseriate, on the upper ± recurved part of the secondary peduncles, thick-pedicelled for 0.5-2(-3) mm;
Petals chartaceous, glabrous, veined length-wise, becoming free only in uppermost part, remaining connate for the rest, oblong, white with cream centre or greenish-yellowish, with sweet smell, (12-)13-15 by 3-4 mm.
Ovary ovoid-conical, truncate, hollow at apex, its edge folded in dry specimens, 3.5-4 by 2-2.5 mm.