Dialium kunstleri
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Description
Large trees, to 40 m high and 90 cm dbh; twigs pale or greyish to dark brown, lenti- cellate, hairy when young.
Leaves including petiole up to 5 cm long; petiolules 3-4(-7) mm long.
Sepals 3, elliptic-oblong, c. 3.5 by 2-2.5 mm, minutely hairy inside.
Stamens 6; filaments 1-1.5 mm long; anthers linear, 3-3.5 mm long, sometimes hairy along both sides of the connective.
Panicles usually axillary, mostly in few fascicles, rarely terminal, rachis (4-)6-12(-20) cm, sparsely hairy; pedicels (2-)3-4 mm long.
Ovary c. 1.5 mm long, whitish hairy; style 1.5-2 mm, slightly recurved at apex.
Fruits broadly ellipsoid to ovoid, 3-4 by 2.5-3 cm, mucro sometimes persistent; pericarp rather thick and firm, exocarp glabrescent with age.
Seeds (sub)orbicular, flattish, c. 1.5 by 1 cm, testa chocolate brown to blackish.