Dysoxylum brachybotrys
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Description
Tree to 20 m, flowering when only a few m tall; bole to 15 cm diam.
Bark rugulose; inner bark bright orange; wood straw.
Leaves 20–30 cm long, glabrous, 2- or 3-jugate with apical pair of leaflets and spike to 8 mm or its scar between them; petiole c. 4–7 cm, swollen at base.
Petals 4, 6 by 2.5 mm, ± puberulous without, cream.
Staminal tube glabrous, truncate; anthers 8, 1 mm long.
Ovary puberulous; style ± puberulous; stylehead orbicular.
Capsule solitary, 3.5 cm long and in diam., pyriform, deeply 3- or 4-lobed, glabrous, veined, bright red when mature, drying black.
Seeds 3 or 4, 2 cm long, 1.5 cm diam., flattened ellipsoid, green; hilum c. 1 cm long; cotyledons oblique.