Parinari gigantea
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Description
Large trees to 40 m tall, trunk fluted at base, the young branches densely lanate pubescent, glabrescent, with conspicuous small lenticels.
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic, 9-17 by 5-8 cm, glabrous above, with dense conspicuous stomatal crypts beneath, bluntly acuminate at apex, the tip 3-6 mm long, rounded at base;
Stipules lanceolate, acute, to 25 mm long, caducous, membraneous, densely appressed tomentellous on exterior, glabrous within.
Flowers not seen.
Fruit irregularly ellipsoid, 6.5 cm long, 4 cm broad;