Chisocheton pauciflorus
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Description
Leptocaul shrub to small tree 17 m tall; bole to 20 cm diam.
Bark dark brown to reddish, smooth; inner bark, red; wood white.
Leaves to 38 cm long and 5-jugate, pseudogemmulate; petiole 2–6 cm.
Flowers c 2 cm long, waxy and heavily scented; pedicel 6–12 mm, puberulous.
Petals (4) 5 or 6, white, waxy, in 2 ranks, 3 outer c. 18 by 6 mm, spathulate-elliptic, minutely tomentose without, glabrous within, (1) 2 or 3 inner c. 17 by 3–5 mm, narrowly spathulate-elliptic, glabrous save a longitudinal median band of minute tomentum in those flowers where inner rank is partly exposed through gaps between outer petals, all blunt and weakly overlapping at apices.
Staminal tube glabrous, save sparse pubescence below anthers within, margin obscurely lobed; anthers (4–)8– 10, c. 1.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic to linear, weakly locellate, glabrous, basifixed, included.
Ovary and style pubescent except for glabrous band below discoid to shortly cylindrical stylehead.
Capsule at least 1 cm diam., spherical, when ripe ellipsoid, rostrate, tomentose and with persistent, usually accrescent calyx when young.
Seeds unknown.