Dysoxylum dumosum
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Description
Tree or treelet 2–6 m; bole c. 7 cm diam.
Bark smooth to finely cracked, brown; inner bark brown; wood brown.
Leaves to 18.5(–35.5) cm, paripinnate with apical spike to 5 mm, to 3(–5)-jugate, glabrous, subcoriaceous, dark green when fresh; petiole 2–10 cm, c. 2 mm diam.
Petals (3) 4, c. 3.5–4 mm long, oblong, subglabrous, adnate to tube proximally, white apices obtuse, thickened.
Staminal tube glabrous, margin with 8 ± emarginate short lobes; anthers (6) 8, c. 0.5 mm long, ovate, weakly exserted, alternating with lobes; pollen shed in tetrads.
Ovary 4-locular, pilose; style cylindrical, sparsely pilose proximally; the stylehead discoid to subcylindrical.
Capsule c. 1–2 cm diam., flattened-globose, glabrous, red.
Seeds 3 or 4, dark brown, with circumhilar orange (?) aril.