Parinari metallica
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Description
Trees to 16 m tall, unbuttressed, the young branches appressed strigose, glabrescent, conspicuously lenticellate.
Leaves thickly coriaceous, elliptic, 8-17 by 4-9 cm, glabrous and shiny with metallic sheen above when dry, with dense stomatal crypts filled with hairs, apex rounded to shortly blunt acuminate, the tip 0-3 mm long, rounded or subcuneate at base;
Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 8-15 mm long, densely brown tomentose, membraneous, early caducous.
Inflorescence of axillary little-branched panicles, 4-10 cm long, the rachis and branches densely brown tomentellous;
Petals lanceolate, glabrous.
Stamens c. 8 with short tooth-like staminodes opposite.
Ovary densely pilose.
Fruit not seen.