Codiocarpus merrittii
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Description
Tree, 5-15(-30) m, up to 25 cm Ø, sometimes fluted.
Branchlets and petioles (1-2 cm) shortly appressedly yellowish-pubescent, glabrate.
Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic, apex shortly rather abruptly acuminate, tip obtuse, base broadly cuneate to rounded, slightly inequilateral and decurrent on the petiole, thin-coriaceous to almost charta-ceous, glabrous above, finely appressedly yel-lowish-hairy beneath, ultimately glabrate, lower surface often minutely tuberculate in dry, apparently yellowish-green in fresh specimens, with numerous fine pellucid points against strong light, 15-20(-28) by 5-10 cm, midrib grooved above, much raised beneath, nerves 8-10 rather straight to curved-ascending pairs, obscurely inarching before the edge, generally prominent beneath;
Inflorescence with a rather thick peduncle 1-2.5 cm, 2-3-chotomous, the branches short, thickish, each with several cymosely and compactly arranged sessile flowers, all over covered with yellowish-greyish and ± appressed hairs.
Petals oblong, a little fleshy, white, hairy outside and at the thickened inflexed apex inside, otherwise glabrous, 4-5 mm in the ♂, c. 3 mm in the ♀ flowers.
Ovary subcylindrical, glabrous.