Parinari rigida
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Description
Trees to 30 m tall, unbuttressed, the young branches tomentellous, glabrescent, inconspicuously lenticellate.
Leaves rigidly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong ovate, 7.5-23 by 3-8 cm, those near to inflorescence much smaller than others, broadest below mid point, glabrous and shiny above, sometimes slightly bullate, the lower surface with stomatal crypts filled with pubescence, with 2 glandular areas at junction of midrib and petiole below, shortly and broadly acuminate at apex, the tip 3-17 mm long, rounded or subcordate at base;
Stipules caducous (not seen).
Inflorescences of narrow terminal panicles to 13 cm long, the rachis and branches tomentose;
Petals spathulate.
Stamens 6-8.
Ovary densely villous.
Fruit irregularly ellipsoid, 5 cm long, to 4 cm diam., tapered towards base almost into a stipe;