Dysoxylum phaeotrichum
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Description
The habit of this tree resembles that of Dysoxylum sessile Miq. and sect. Clemensia of Chisocheton, with which it shares the flagelliform infructescence.
Sparsely branched treelet 2–3(–8) m; bole to 2 cm diam.
Leaves 50–75 cm, 5- or 6-jugate with apical scar; petiole 15–20 cm, flattened to grooved adaxially in sicco, hollowed adaxially and swollen at base, lenticellate, finely pubescent.
Petals 4, c. 11 mm long, narrowly elliptic, densely adpressed pubescent, creamish, valvate, apex acute.
Staminal tube glabrous, tough, margin weakly crenulate; anthers 8, c. 1.2 mm long, boat-shaped, glabrous, included, apiculate, weakly locellate.
Ovary subglabrous to adpressed pubescent; 4-locular, style terete, proximally ± adpressed pubescent; stylehead short-cylindrical.
Capsules to at least 3 cm diam., subglobose or depressed globose, very shortly stipitate, pink, ± weakly pilose, 4-valved, white within, congested in distal 1/4 of axis.
Seeds 2–4, c. 2 cm long, 1.2 cm diam., ellipsoid; testa blood red (tasteless but weakly astringent, Jacobs); hilum c. 8 mm long, oval.