Gomphandra capitulata
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Description
Tree, 5-20(-28) m, up to 40 cm Ø.
Branchlets slightly winged below the insertion of the petioles, tips puberulous.
Leaves elliptic or oblong-, rarely ovate-elliptic, apex shortly subabruptly and acutely acuminate, base cuneate, the very base folded and decurrent to the grooved petiole, subcoriaceous to firmly chartaceous, dark olive-brownish and the edge slightly revolute in dry specimens, glabrous, 12-20 by 4-8 cm, nerves 5-6(-7) pairs rather straight-ascending, much paler than the lamina in dry specimens beneath, transverse veins distinct beneath;
Inflorescences all over short-pubescent, on top of a slender peduncle (1-2 cm), consisting of several short cymes crowded into a kind of head or umbel, which bear up to 15 flowers in the ♂, up to 7 flowers in the ♀ ones.
Petals 5, coherent to a narrow tube, whitish, laxly hairy distally only, c. 4 mm.
Stamens 5, much exserted;
Ovary short-hairy except the glabrous base.