Sarcotheca monophylla
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Description
Shrub or tree, up to 30 m, 38 cm ø, bole occasionally buttressed and crooked.
Leaves unifoliolate, 4-10 by 1½-3¼ (-7) cm, elliptic to oblong, rarely suborbicular, acuminate to cuspidate, base rounded to cuneate, glabrous, dark when dry, subglaucous beneath;
Sepals 1½-2 by 1-1½ mm, ovate to rectangular, acute to emarginate.
Petals deep red, 3-5 by ¾-1½ mm, lanceolate, emarginate.
Panicles 1-2 together, erect, 1-9 ½ cm, rusty-puberulous, ± dense;
Fruit up to 13 by 13 mm, pale to bright red, subglobose to ovoid, rounded to acute;
Seeds 7.5 by 3 mm;