Tristiropsis ferruginea
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Description
Tree, up to 30 m, dbh up to 40 cm.
Branchlets c. 1 cm thick, when young densely orange-brown to ferrugineous tomentellous, glabrescent.
Leaves:
Sepals dark purple, hardly or not persistent in fruit, outer and inner hardly different (outer 2 broad-ovate, inner broad-obovate), c. 2.5 by 2-2.2 mm, inside rather densely appressed-hairy, margin entire, apparently not petaloid.
Petals with a c. 1.25 mm long claw, the blade transversely half-elliptic, c. 1 by 1.5 mm, margin below the insertion of the scale densely woolly, upper part densely ciliate, apically crenu- late, inside woolly, the claw more densely so than the blade;
Stamens 8;
Fruits subglobular, c. 22 by 17 mm, at base contracted into a c. 1 mm long stipe, densely ferrugineous tomentellous, (1-) 2- (or 3-)celled, inside densely ferrugineous velvety.