Gomphandra papuana
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Description
Tree, 5-10(-30) m, up to 20 cm Ø;
Branchlets short-pubescent to tomentulose distally, glabrate below, pith hollow.
Leaves elliptic to oblong-, rarely subovate-elliptic, apex generally shortly, rather abruptly and often obliquely acuminate, base cuneate, rarely almost rounded, stiff-chartaceous or subcoria-ceous, greyish-green to pale olivaceous-brownish in the dry state, early glabrescent above, ± persistently covered with numerous short hairs and rather soft to the touch all over beneath, finally partly glabrescent there, 15-25 by (5-)6-11.5 cm, nerves 5-7(-8) curved-ascending and beneath somewhat prominent pairs, transverse veins subparallel to and distant from each other, slightly raised beneath, reticulation obsolete;
Petals 4 or 5 (rarely -7), coherent in the lower ⅔, though partially free from each other by 1 or 2 slits, thickish, greenish to white, 5-7 mm.
Stamens 5(-7), much exserted;
Ovary ± laxly appressedly hairy.