Rhabdodendron amazonicum
Description
Tree up to 15 m, usually smaller, 20 cm diam.; stem with thin hard bark, wood with anomalous secondary phloem; young branches with scattered peltate hairs. Stipules absent. Petiole 1.5-3.5 cm long, with scattered peltate hairs, not winged, terete; blade coriaceous, oblanceolate, oblong to oblong-obovate, 2-39 x 3-10 cm, apex acute, acuminate or mucronate, most frequently with acumen 2-9 mm long, gradually narrowed to cuneate base, glabrous above, with few scattered peltate hairs beneath, not rugose on surfaces; midvein plane to prominulous above, prominulous beneath, secondary veins 30-45 pairs, plane to prominulous above, prominulous beneath, anastomosing but not forming conspicuous marginal vein. Inflorescence supra-axillary and sometimes terminal panicles or occasionally reduced to racemes, 9-17 cm long, sparsely peltate pubescent becoming glabrous with age; bracts and bracteoles ovate to lanceolate, 1-2 mm long, persistent, chartaceous; pedicels 6-15 mm long, glabrescent, frequently recurved, often with 2lanceolate bracteoles; calyx-tube turbinate-campanulate, 2-4 mm long, exterior glabrescent, lobes small but distinct and apparent in young flowers only; petals 5, oblong, 7-8 mm long, sepaloid, minutely punctate; stamens ca. 45, anthers ca. 7 mm long; stigmatic surface long and linear. Fruit subglobose, 6-10 mm diam., exocarp glabrous, smooth but wrinkled when dry, mesocarp very thin, fleshy, endocarp thin, bony, fragile, with median line of fracture, glabrous within.