Dysoxylum kaniense
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Description
Tree to 24 m; bole to 50 cm diam. with buttresses to 60 cm tall and out, 7 cm wide.
Bark smooth, lenticellate, to finely fissured, dark brown; inner bark yellowish and reddish brown mottled; sapwood light brown; heartwood reddish brown.
Leaves 30–45 cm, subglabrous, 4–6-jugate with apical stub or scar; petiole 9–14 cm, flattened adaxially, swollen basally; rachis angled or almost winged.
Petals 4, at least 4 mm long, acute, valvate, densely short-pubescent without, white.
Staminal tube ± weakly puberulous apically without, glabrous within, margin subtruncate to crenulate; anthers 8, c. 1 mm long, oblong, glabrous, ± included.
Ovary pubescent, 4-locular; style pubescent in proximal 2/3; stylehead subconical-clavate.
Capsule solitary, to 10 cm long, 8 cm diam., pyriform but often asymmetric by abortion, apically dimpled, ribbed, scurfy, ochre, drying brown.
Seeds at least 2, ?sarcotestal.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Santa Cruz group present, Ulawa present
Solomon Islands (Santa Cruz Group, Ulawa); Malesia: New Guinea
Notes
The Solomon Islands collections in particular approach the New Guinea material referred to Dysoxylum oppositifolium, with which it shares a vernacular name. Except for the type, I have seen no flowering material from New Guinea, and that from the Solomons is immature, having a short tube and exserted anthers like the immature flowers described as the type of D. pachystachyurn.