Gomphandra simalurensis
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Description
Tree, 13-25 m.
Branchlets robust, tips laxly appressedly hairy.
Leaves elliptic, sometimes sub-obovate-elliptic, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate, base cuneate and a little decurrent on the petiole, coriaceous, dark brown when dry, glabrous at full age, 10-17(-21) by (4-)4.5-9(-11) cm, nerves 5-6(−7) pairs, lower ones rather straight, upper ones more curved-ascendent, almost flat above, raised beneath, transverse veins rather obscure beneath;
♂ & ♀ Inflorescences consisting of 3-5 many-flowered cymes collected on top of a rather slender peduncle (1.5-2 cm), pale rusty-tomentel-lous except the petals.
Petals 4 or 5, white or greenish, still connate at anthesis to a 4- or 5-lobed distally dilated tube, 4.5 mm.
Stamens 4 or 5, much exserted;
Ovary glabrous at the very base, otherwise densely set with forward directed hairs.