Chisocheton setosus
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Description
Pachycaul treelet to 5 m, ?unbranched; bole c. 8 cm diam.
Bark smooth; inner bark pale yellow.
Leaves to 1 m long, imparipinnate, at least 6-jugate; petiole to 35 cm long, subterete, sometimes grooved adaxially, to 6 mm diam., ferruginous-setose with hairs 2–3 mm long, base swollen with conspicuous hollow at junction with shoot; rachis 1- or 2-sulcate, setose as petiole.
Inflorescence to 2 m, pendulous, ± densely setose, drying irregularly angled with flowers crowded in condensed cymes at distal end like a bellrope, bracts c. 7 mm long, setose.
Flowers recurved, shortly pedicellate.
Staminal tube to 3.2 cm long, glabrous except for a band of hairs below lobes without, white, margin with 6–8 truncate or irregularly lobed lobes anthers 6–8, c. 2 mm long, glabrous, scarcely locellate.
Ovary in female flowers unknown; style sparsely pilose proximally, glabrous distally; stylehead capitate, distinctly narrow- annular apically.
Fruit (unripe) pale yellow, densely setose.