Alstonia muelleriana
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Description
Small to medium-sized tree 5-25 m high, 4-40 cm dbh.
Bark rough, shallowly longitudinally and horizontally fissured, grey or pale brown;
Branchlets glabrous or pubescent.
Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4;
Inflorescence 4-9 mm long, many-flowered;
Flowers fragrant.
Sepals pale green, connate at the base for 0.5-1(-1.5) mm, ovate, 1.7-2.5 by 0.7-1.3 mm, obtuse, pubescent outside, pubescent or puberulous inside, ciliate, erect.
Stamens inserted at 1.7-2.3 mm from the base;
Fruit a pair of follicles, 13-32 cm by 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
Seeds oblong (rarely elliptic), c. 7.5 by 1.3 mm, one end rounded and the other long acuminate up to 2.5 mm long, pubescent on both sides, longest cilia 8-10 mm long, reducing gradually towards the margins.