Chisocheton koordersii
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Description
Tree to 30 m; bole to 14 m, 60 cm diam., buttresses to 1.5 m.
Bark rather rough, finely fissured, brown, 0.5 mm thick; inner bark 5 mm thick, yellow to whitish; sapwood white.
Leaves to at least 35 cm and 7-jugate, pseudogemmulate; petiole to 18 cm, terete.
Flowers apparently bisexual and ebracteate, sessile, with short pseudopedicel, scented.
Petals 5 or 6, 11–12 mm long, white, narrowly spathulate, densely and minutely stellate-pubescent without, glabrous within, valvate, connate in most proximal 1/4 to 1/3.
Staminal tube long simple villous without in band below lobes, glabrous within save a band of small ascendant simple hairs just below anthers, margin 5- or 6-lobed, lobes c. 2.5 mm long, ± bifid, glabrous; anthers 5 or 6, c. 2–2.5 mm long, minutely apiculate, alocellate, glabrous, sessile, basifixed in angle of lobes.
Ovary c. 2.5 mm long, minutely pubescent ; style minutely pubescent in proximal 1/3 to 1/2; stylehead capitate.
Capsule 5 cm, spherical, shortly stipitate, reddish tomentellous, 2-valved.
Seeds 2, c. 3.5 cm diam., scutellar, sarcotestal.