Dysoxylum sparsiflorum
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Description
Tree 4–12 m.
Leaves 20–40 cm, paripinnate with apical spike c. 2 mm long, densely hairy, 2- or 3- jugate; (petiole 3.5–8 cm long, 1.5–3 mm diam., ± pubescent, swollen and flattened adaxially at base; rachis 6–11 cm, c. 2 mm diam., ± pubescent.
Inflorescence a condensed fascicle of thyrses, axillary, c. 5 cm long; axes c. 3–8 mm, ± densely hairy, the branches and pedicels subglabrous; the branches with 1–5 pedicels; bracts and bracteoles c. 1 mm long, triiangular, densely hairy, caducous; pedicels 5–15 mm, very slender, articulated with attenuate pseudopedicels 5–11 mm long.
Petals 5, 18–20 mm long, narrowly oblong, white, glabrous, valvate, apices acute, fleshy.
Staminal tube glabrous, margin crenate; anthers 10, c. 1 mm long, oblong, apiculate, glabrous, inserted c. 2 mm within tube.
Ovary and ovules unknown; style terete, densely pubescent in proximal 7/8; stylehead shortly cylindrical.
Capsule c. 3 cm diam., spherical, glabrous.
Seeds unknown.