Hymenaea courbaril var. courbaril
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Description
Tree up to 25(-40) m tall, often much smaller in cultivation, branchlets glabrous.
Leaves short petioled, petiole 10-20 mm; petiolules twisted, very short, 2-4 mm.
Inflorescences shortly, densely corymbose-paniculate; pedicels c. 6 mm.
Petals yellow, streaked with red, subsessile, oblong, ovate or obovate, more or less equalling the calyx lobes or slightly longer.
Stamens 3-3.5 cm.
Ovary stipitate (stipe 4-8 mm), c. 4 by 2 mm, glabrous, 12-15- (or more-)ovuled.
Seeds oblong, obovoid, or ellipsoid, 2-3 cm long.
Distribution
American tropics, Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Sabah present); Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), from southern Mexico and the West Indies to Brazil present
Native to the American tropics, widely distributed from southern Mexico and the West Indies to Brazil. Cultivated in the tropics, also in Malesia: seen from Malay Peninsula, Borneo (Sabah), Java.