Prunus versteeghii
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Description
Trees up to 25 m, buttresses sometimes present, bark grey (-brown), strongly smelling.
Leaves oblong to oblong-ovate, 10-15 by 4-8 cm, base rounded to acute, apex acute, herbaceous, with 7-9 pairs of nerves, venation not conspicuous, glabrous to very sparsely hairy, basal glands 2, flat.
Stipules (few seen) c. 6 by 2 mm, free.
Sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, hairy.
Petals elliptic to obovate, c. 1 mm long, hairy.
Stamens 35-45, filaments 1.5 mm, anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long.
Fruits transversely ellipsoid to didymous, 15-19 by 22-28(-30) mm, exocarp sparsely hairy to glabrous, purplish black when ripe, mesocarp rather thick, endocarp glabrous inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.