Dysoxylum latifolium
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Description
Tree to 30 m; bole to 50 cm diam., fluted.
Bark smooth to finely fissured and scaling; inner bark orange and fawn mottled with little or no latex; sapwood straw; heartwood reddish.
Leaves 20– 30 cm, 3- or 4-jugate, with terminal spike or its scar, dark glossy green adaxially, alternate, rarely subopposite; petiole 6–10 cm, ± angled, subglabrous.
Petals 4, 5–6 by c. 2 mm, oblong, puberulous without, white.
Staminal tube pubescent without, glabrous within, white, margin crenulate to ± dentate; anthers 8, c. 1 mm long, included.
Ovary densely pubescent, 4-locular; style pubescent in proximal 2/3; stylehead shortly cylindrical with basal annulus.
Capsule c. 5 cm long, 4 cm diam., pyriform, ± veined, orange-brown when ripe, erect, solitary or in groups up to 4, pericarp sometimes with weak latex.
Seeds 1–3, c. 2 cm long, 1 cm wide, flattened ellipsoid; the sarcotesta red; cotyledons collateral, green.