Schizomeria novoguineensis
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Description
Tree 16-40 m high, the bole up to 70 cm diameter, buttresses absent.
Leaves with petiole 0.9-1.7 cm and blade subcoriaceous to coriaceous, 5-11 by 2.5-5.8 cm, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rarely broadly or narrowly elliptic, with the base acute or rarely somewhat truncate and the apex acute or rarely obtuse;
Stipules 0.9-1.5 cm long, broad at base (2-5 mm) and tapering to a narrow tongue 1.5-2 mm wide, rounded at apex, with dense adpressed in-dumentum on abaxial surface.
Inflorescence usually false-terminal, the apical bud aborted, dormant or vegetative;
Flowers bisexual or rarely male (?), 4-5 mm diameter; (4- or) 5-merous (except for gynoecium);
Fruit spherical or slightly oblate, somewhat irregular, up to c. 2 by 2.2 cm;