Lepisanthes bengalan
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Description
Tree, up to 12 m high, dbh up to 40 cm, or shrub.
Leaves imparipin-nate with a reduced terminal leaflet, 4-6-jugate, glabrous;
Inflorescences axillary, 30-35 cm long, rachis sub-glabrous, widely branched;
Sepals 5, outer elliptic, 4.5 by 2.5 mm, inner suborbicular, 3.5 by 3 mm, all with petaloid margin, dark red, outside densely fulvous-puberulous, margin densely ciliolate, inside glabrous.
Petals 5, sessile, elliptic, 3 by 2.5 mm, thick-fleshy, outside basally rather densely ap-pressed short fulvous hairy, margin ciliolate;
Stamens 8;
Ovary 3-celled, ciliate along the sides;