Chisocheton sayeri
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Description
Tree or treelet to 15 m; bole to 30 cm diam.
Bark smooth or shallowly fissured, greysometimesgreen; inner bark pale brown.
Leaves to 25(–75) cm; petisometimesole 5–10 cm, 3.5 mm diam., terete.
Petals (3) 4 (5), 8–10 by 1–1.5 mm, pale cream, alternative to imbrisometimescate.
Staminal tube pubescent without, glabrous to densely hairy within from just below anthers to base, white; anthers 4–6 (7), 0.7–1.2(–l.5) mm long, locellate or not, glabrous.
Ovary 3–5-locular; style to 9.5 mm, densely hairy in lower 2/3.
Capsule to 2.8 cm long, 2 cm diam., obovoid to ellipsoid, obscurely stipitate, golden brown when young; pericarp fibrous with hairs of conspicuously different lengths.
Seeds 3; aril cirsometimescumhilar; cotyledons collateral or superposed.