Dysoxylum brevipaniculum
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Description
Tree 3–8 m.
Bark dark brown, flaking longitudinally; inner bark dark brown; wood cream.
Leaves 25–40 cm, imparipinnate, 2–5-jugate; petiole 4–7.5 cm, 2–3 mm diam., flattened to shallowly channelled adaxially (in sicco), ± densely strigose, base weakly swollen; rachis c. 2 mm diam., flattened adaxially (in sicco), glabrescent to strigose.
Flowers ± sessile.
Petals 4, c. 7 mm long, narrowly spatulate, imbricate at apices, glabrous, white.
Staminal tube glabrous, 8-ribbed with 8 emarginate to shallowly bifid lobes, white; anthers 8, c. 1 mm long, oblong, subsessile, on ribs alternating with lobes, included.
Ovary 3- or 4-locular, adpressed pubescent; style pubescent in proximal half, terete; stylehead discoid to subcapitate.
Capsules solitary or in fascicles of up to 4, 4 cm long, c. 2 cm diam., obovoid to ellipsoid, stipitate, apiculate, subglabrous, conspicuously lenticellate, orange- red, dehiscing with 3 or 4 valves; pericarp with weak watery latex.
Seeds 3 or 4, c. 2 cm long, plano-convex, red, (?arillate).