Elattostachys tetraporandra
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Description
Trees, 5-30 m high, dbh 6-18 cm;
Leaves 2-3(-4)-jugate;
Inflorescences 2.5-9.5 cm long, in fruit 6-11.5 cm long;
Sepals elliptic to ovate, 2.2-3.7 by 1.4-1.9 mm.
Petals creamish, 1.1-2.7 by 1.7-2.1 mm, outside glabrous or with some hairs, margin ciliate, inside glabrous, claw 0.3-1.2 mm long, auricles woolly.
Fruits pale green or cream when young, reddish when mature, ± globular or obpyramidal, sharply deltoid in cross section, keeled, 12-20 by 12-20 mm, wall 1.9-4 mm thick, outside glabrous to (thinly) shortly appressed-hairy (inside sometimes only thinly hairy).
Seeds (narrowly) obovoid, 8-9 by 4-5 mm, sarcotesta rounded, covering 1/5-¼ of the seed.