Chisocheton ruber
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Description
Tree to 15 m; bole to 20 cm diam., fluted.
Bark smooth to weakly and irregularly flaking, greenish grey or reddish, with conspicuous inflorescence bosses, sometimes bearing leafy shoots, arranged ± spirally from ground level to 5 m; wood ivory.
Leaves to 1.5 m long, pseudogemmulate, subglabrous, in terminal spirals; petiole 8–20 cm; rachis ± 3-ribbed.
Inflorescences to 10 cm long, not or once branched, sweetly-scented, borne on bosses which produce them over several seasons; rachis pubescent; pedicels 1–3 mm long, pubescent, minutely bracteolate.
Petals 5 or 6, 20–22 mm long, 4 mm wide at widest, 2.5 mm at narrowest, linear-oblong to spathulate, fleshy distally, pubescent without, imbricate to quincuncial.
Staminal tube pubescent distally without, villous within, white, adnate to corolla at base, the margin shallowly 6–8-lobed, each lobe praemorse or irregularly 2- or 3-fid; anthers 8–10, 2 mm long, oblong, alocellate, yellow, sparsely hairy near connective, basifixed.
Ovary conical, 5- locular, appressed pubescent; style white, hairy in proximal 3/4 or throughout; style- head to 1.8 mm diam., very shortly cylindrical to subdiscoid.
Capsule to 5 cm long, 3 cm diam., top-shaped, 5-merous, glabrous, reddish; pericarp with white latex.
Seeds unknown.