Chisocheton lansiifolius
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Description
Tree to 18 m; bole to 25 cm diam., sometimes fluted and buttressed, buttresses to 2 m tall, c. 5 cm wide, concave.
Bark smooth, dark brown; inner bark yellow; sap wood pale brown.
Leaves to 54 cm long, paripinnate, ?pseudogemmulate, to 5-jugate; petiole 8–15 cm.
Petals 4, 8–9 by 1.5 mm, weakly pubescent without, glabrous within, creamy white to pinkish, connate at the base.
Staminal tube glabrous without, cottony pubescent within, margin 6-lobed, the lobes entire, lanceolate, c. 2 mm long; anthers 6, c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous, weakly locellate.
Capsule to 5 cm diam., subspherical, stipitate, red; valves 4.
Seeds 2, scutiform, c. 3 cm diam.