Chisocheton montanus
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Description
Tree to 8 m; bole to 24 cm diam.
Bark dark brown, darker within; inner bark reddish.
Leaves to 75 cm long; petiole 5–15 cm long, 2.5 mm diam., terete.
Inflorescence to 18 cm, weakly scented, paniculiform, borne in leafy axils, though subtending leaf sometimes unexpanded, velutinous; axis unbranched (? female) or with branches to 2.5 cm (male); bracts to 3 mm long, subulate.
Petals (3 or) 4, c. 7 by 2 mm, creamy white, pubescent without.
Staminal tube weakly adnate to corolla, c. 6 mm long, sericeous without though sometimes glabrous at base, glabrous within though sometimes with a few hairs at base, margin ± entire; anthers (5) 6, c. 1.5 mm long, locellate, inserted c. 3 mm within tube, connective glabrous to sparsely hairy.
Ovary 4-locular; style to 6 mm long, glabrous or with hairs in proximal half.