Sarcotheca diversifolia
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Description
Shrub or tree, up to 27 m high, to 90 cm ø, often buttressed (90 cm high, 135 cm out, 5 cm ø).
Leaves trifoliolate, papyraceous to subcoriaceous, ovate- to elliptic-oblong to -lanceolate, glabrous, acute to caudate, base acute to truncate, venation not very conspicuous;
Sepals 2¼-5 by 1¼-3 mm, broadly ovate to oblong, acute to emarginate.
Petals 7-11 by 2-5 mm, obovate-oblong to -lanceolate, rounded to emarginate, 1-2 mm clawed, lilac or pink to scarlet or red.
Panicles shorter than subtending leaf, 1-4 together, loosely branched, 1-8½ (-13½) cm, ferrugineous-puberulous, gla-brescent;
Fruit white to greenish when fresh (red when dry), ellipsoid, glabrous, 16-31 by 9-20 mm;
Seeds 7½ by 5 mm, testa smooth;