Melicoccus oliviformis subsp. intermedius
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Diclinous tree, 5-35 m tall, forming a dense crown; trunk reaching 20 to 50 (100) cm in diam.Stems sulcate, glabrous, puberulent or pubescent, lenticellate, ash-colored. Leaves paripinnate; petioles (0.8) 1-5 (10.5) cm long, striate, glabrous, slightly flattened along adaxial surface; rachis bicanaliculate along adaxial surface, puberulent, glabrescent; petiolules 4-12 mm long, puberulent, glabrescent, adaxially furrowed; leaflets 4, opposite, subopposite or less often alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic, ovate or obovate, 5-13.5 × 2-4.7 cm, the apex obtuse, rounded or less often obtusely apiculate, acute or acuminate, the base obtuse, cuneate or rounded, slightly asymmetrical, the margins slightly undulate, secondary veins straight or slightly arching toward the margins, tertiary veins inconspicuous. Thyrses panicle-shaped, fasciculate, axillary or distal, 2-20 cm long; axes angled or slightly flattened, ferruginous-tomentose or tomentulose; bracts and bracteoles deciduous, 1-1.5 mm long; dichasia simple or compound, sometimes with aborted lateral flowers; peduncle 0-4 mm long; pedicels ca. 0.1 mm long. Calyx 2-2.7 mm long, ferruginous-tomentose or tomentulose, with 5ovate, concave sepals, obtuse at apex, free to the base or nearly so; petals rhombate, 2.2-4.5 mm long, obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, erect at anthesis, abaxially scattered wooly-pubescent, especially along margins, adaxially puberulent to scattered wooly-pubescent; appendage a short densely wooly-pubescent prolongation of the margins, or absent; disc cup-shaped, 5-lobed, tomentulose, ca. 0.5 mm tall; stamens (7) 8, spreading, the filaments pilose to wooly on the lower ½ to ⅔, in two sets of unequal length; ovary densely and minutely whitish or ferruginous-tomentose, the stigma trilobed, papillate. Fruits ellipsoid to ovoid, green at maturity, ferruginous-or grayish sericeous, 2-3 cm long, the pericarp ca. 0.5 mm thick. Seed ellipsoid, 1.8-2 cm long, with sour, white sarcotesta.