Xanthophyllum ancolanum
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Description
Shrub or small tree, up to 4 m, 4 cm dbh.
Leaf-blade 10-26 by (2.5-)3.5-10.5 cm, apex shortly acuminate to cuspidate;
Inflorescences situated at end of young twigs, but also axillary and on old nodes (plant partly ramiflorous), 1 (or 2) in each axil, erect to strongly reflexed, unbranched, or sometimes with a side-branch;
Sepals dark purple;
Petals when dry light to dark orange, the longest one 13-19 mm long;
Stamens:
Ovary c. 2 mm stipitate, half-patently hairy;
Fruit (immature) shortly stalked, more or less globular, slightly beaked, brownish, hairy;