Dysoxylum variabile
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Description
Tree to 10(–15) m, flowering when 3 m tall or less; bole to 20(–30) cm diam., often of poor form.
Bark grey-brown, smooth, lenticellate, to finely cracking; inner bark creamish; sapwood cream; heartwood pinkish.
Leaves 12–30 cm, paripinnate with caducous apical spike to 2 mm long or, in juveniles, imparipinnate, (5–)10–14(–16)-jugate, the distal leaflets sometimes developing ± some time after the most proximal pseudostipular; petiole 0–3 cm, 2–3 mm diam., subglabrous to bristly pubescent, ± terete, base weakly swollen; rachis 2–3 mm diam., glabrescent to bristly pubescent.
Petals (3) 4, c. 9 mm long, c. 1.5–2 mm wide, narrowly oblong, creamish white, valvate, pilose without especially at apices, adnate to staminal tube in proximal 1/3.
Staminal tube glabrescent to somewhat pilose without, weakly ribbed, margin ± irregularly lobed to praemorse; anthers (6) 8, c. 1 mm long, narrowly oblong, glabrous, included, their tips some 1 mm within tube.
Ovary densely adpressed golden pubescent, 3- or 4-locular, each locule 1-ovulate; style terete, adpressed pubescent in proximal 2/3, stylehead suborbicular to short-cylindrical.
Capsule c. 2 cm diam., subglabrous, apiculate, whitish with ± dense golden tomentum, 3- or 4-valved; pericarp white within, with white latex when cut.
Seeds 3 or 4, c. 15 mm long, plano-convex, with red (?) aril and white hilum, apparently dangling from funicles at capsule dehiscence.