Hymenaea verrucosa
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Description
Tree up to 24(-40) m tall.
Stipules narrowly elliptic, c. 20 by 4-6 mm.
Inflorescences paniculate, up to 35 cm long, often much shorter and few-flowered, branchlets and pedicels densely and shortly pubescent; bracts and bracteoles ovate or orbicular; pedicels 2-9 mm, articulate at base.
Flowers small, white.
Petals clawed and subequal, the larger ones 15-20 mm long (incl. the narrowly linear claw), limb broadly ovate or suborbiculate, 8-10 mm in diam., sometimes 2 petals minute and scale-like.
Stamens unequal, up to c. 25 mm.
Ovary slightly stipitate, densely hirsute at base, more or less glabrous above, 4-ovuled.
Seeds ellipsoid, 13-18 by 9-12 mm, dark brown.
Distribution
Africa: Seychelles (Seychelles present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Sabah cultivated); Jawa (Jawa cultivated), E coast of Madagascar present, Mauritius present, coast of eastern Africa present, the islands of Zanzibar present
Native to the coast of eastern Africa, the islands of Zanzibar, E coast of Madagascar, Seychelles, and Mauritius.. Introduced and planted in tropical gardens, in Malesia seen from Borneo (Sabah) and Java.