Chisocheton perakensis
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Description
Pachycaul tree to 15 m; branching sparse and somewhat fastigiate.
Leaves to 2 m long, at least 7-jugate, pseudogemmulate; petiole c. 10–25 cm, flattened adaxially, glabrous to pubescent, as is rachis.
Inflorescence a raceme (female) or thyrse (male), to 75 cm, supra-axillary, pendent, puberulous; axis 4-angled, compressed in sicco; the proximal branches to 12 cm, few-flowered; pedicels 7–10 mm; flowers somewhat larger in females than males, sweetly-scented, laticiferous.
Petals in 2 ranks, 3 outer 14–24 by 7–8 mm, oblong-spathulate, fleshy, tomentellous without, glabrous within, apex rounded, (3–)4–7 outer 10–18 by 3–5 mm, narrowly oblong-spathulate, glabrous.
Staminal tube 5–7 mm diam., glabrous without, sparsely pilose within, below anthers, margin obscurely crenulate to lobed, the lobes to 1 mm; anthers 10–13, c. 2.5 mm long, linear-oblong, locellate, glabrous, basifixed, included c. 1 mm within tube.
Ovary c. 9 mm long, 3 mm diam. (female), 7–9-locular; style terete, pubescent proximally; stylehead c. 1.5 mm diam., discoid, glabrous.
Capsule c 8 cm diam., flattened-globose, densely but minutely tomentose, borne singly or in pairs; pericarp thick, leathery, exuding white latex on cutting.
Seeds c. 2.5 cm long, shaped like orange-segments, 1 per locule; hilum large; sarcotesta vascular; cotyledons superposed.