Dysoxylum yunzaingense

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Dysoxylum yunzaingense

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Description

Tree 4.5–7 m tall. Leaves 14–22 cm long, paripinnate, 3- or 4-jugate with caducous spike 2 mm long, petiole 4–7 cm, glabrous, ± grooved adaxially, swollen basally; rachis subglabrous. Petals 4, c. 4 mm long, glabrous, creamy white, adnate to staminal tube in proximal 1/3. Staminal tube pubescent without, pilose distally within, margin undulate to ± irregularly lobed; anthers 8–10, c. 0.5 mm long, included, apiculate. Ovary (?) 4-merous, adpressed pubescent; style adpressed pubescent in proximal half; stylehead subdiscoid with annulus. Immature fruit 6 mm diam., glabrous, only known

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Eastern New Guinea present

Malesia:eastern New Guinea. Collected rarely.

Taxonomy

Dried material is separated with difficulty from that of Dysoxylum papuanum (q.v.) from the same island. It has larger flowers however.