Gluta aptera
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Description
Tree up to 40 m high and 60 cm ø.
Bark brown, rather smooth.
Leaves coriaceous, obovate to obovate-oblong, or elliptic, 4-29(-37½) by 2½-10½(-15½) cm;
Petals white, then changing to red from base upwards (cf. ANDERSON S 12433), imbricate or contorted, oblanceolate, 11-16 by 3½-5 mm, puberulous outside, sparsely hairy and slightly papillose near the base inside, sometimes glabrescent.
Stamens c. 100, 8-11 mm;
Panicles up to 32 cm long, pubescent especially when young, glabrescent, sometimes glabrous;
Ovary broadly ellipsoid, obovoid, or obliquely subglobose, l-½ mm ø, glabrous;