Dysoxvlum sericopetalum
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Description
Tree 15–35 m; bole to 50 cm diam.
Bark dark brown to black; inner bark bright red- brown odorous; sapwood creamish; heartwood light brown.
Leaves to 30(–100) cm, 5–7-jugate with apical spike or scar and one lateral leaflet often appearing terminal; petiole (4–)8–12 cm, weakly angled to grooved adaxially, ± minutely adpressed pubescent.
Flowers subsessile, pinkish in bud.
Petals 4, c. 9 mm long, narrowly spathulate, valvate, creamish, adpressed pubescent without, apices acute, thickened.
Staminal tube glabrous, margin crenulate; anthers 8, c. 1 mm long, glabrous, inserted c. 1.5 mm within tube, free filament c. 0.5 mm.
Ovary adpressed sericeous, 4-locular, each locule (?) 2-ovulate; style terete, subglabrous; stylehead spherical.
Capsule subglobose, very shortly beaked, pubescent (unripe).
Seeds oblong; seedcoat coriaceous; cotyledons collateral (Merrill & Perry, l.c.).