Dysoxylum pauciflorum
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Description
Small tree 5–10 m; bole to 15 cm diam.
Bark smooth, mottled, lenticellate; wood yellowish white (Elmer).
Leaves 15–40 cm, paripinnate, with caducous, apical spike c. 1 mm long, 3–5-jugate; petiole 3–8 cm, 1.5–3 mm diam., subglabrous to finely sericeous, base swollen and flattened or hollowed adaxially; rachis c. 1.5–2.5 mm diam., subglabrous to finely sericeous.
Petals 4, c. 8–10(–15) mm long, narrowly oblong, somewhat puberulous near apices, white to pinkish, imbricate, ± adnate to staminal tube at base.
Staminal tube glabrous without, densely villous within, especially near base, margin irregularly 8-lobed, each lobe variously laciniate; anthers 8, c. 1.5 mm long, narrowly oblong, apiculate, glabrous, inserted between lobes and slightly exserted.
Ovary ± densely pubescent, 4-locular, each locule with one ovule; style terete, ± pubescent in proximal third; stylehead subdiscoid to capitate.
Capsule c. 2 cm long, 1 5–2 cm diam., obovoid, red, apiculate splitting into four valves, white within.
Seeds c. 1 cm long, trigonal-convex, covered with thin aril (?sarcotesta).