Chisocheton sapindinus
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Description
Tree to 10 m, leptocaul, somewhat weeping, ± riparian; bole to 10 cm diam.
Bark greyish, smooth to finely fissured, reddish within; inner bark straw, sometimes unpleasantly scented.
Leaves to 45 cm, with very small pseudogemmula; petiole 1–8 cm, 1–2 mm diam.
Inflorescence racemose to thyrsoid, to 60 cm, but usually very much less, unbranched in females, 0–2-branched in males; branches to 3 cm, patent, with scattered flowers, especially distally; bracts c. 1 mm long, subulate; pedicels to 2 mm long.
Petals 4, c. 13.5 by 1 mm, though smaller in males, ligulate, white or pinkish green, glabrous or with a few hairs apically, alternative.
Staminal tube glabrous, margin weakly lobed; anthers 4–6, c. 0.7 mm long, locellate, inserted c. 1.5 mm within tube, connective glabrous or thinly pubescent.
Capsule to 6.5 cm long, 2.25 cm diam., glabrous, red; valves 3 or 4.
Seeds 2–4, to 3 cm long, 1.8 cm wide, 1.1 cm thick, ellipsoid to boatshaped; aril circumhilar, red; testa black; cotyledons superposed.