Chisocheton sarasinorum
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Description
Pachycaul treelet or small tree to 15 m with open crown.
Bark smooth greyish green, inner bark pale brown; wood pale fawn.
Leaves to 150 cm, at least 7-jugate, pseudogemmulate, dull adaxially, pale abaxially, in terminal spirals; rachis green, subglabrous to weakly pilose; petiole to 20 cm or more, subglabrous to weakly pilose.
Petals (5) 6 in two ranks, white, adhering to tube at base, 3 outer 16–20 by 6 mm, narrowly oblong, obtuse, (2) 3 inner 14–18 mm long, almost linear, obtuse, apices hooded.
Staminal tube thick, tough, glabrous to subglabrous without, laxly pilose proximally within, margin truncate to obscurely dentate; anthers 8–10 (11), 2–2.5 mm long, linear, basifixed, included.
Ovary 6–8-locular, densely villous; style villous in proximal half; stylehead discoid to stoutly cylindrical.
Capsule to 7 cm long, 8 cm diam., flattened globose, 6–8-locular, borne singly or paired on rachis to 20 cm long, 8 mm diam.; pericarp c. 4 mm thick, tough, greenish-brown velutinous, exuding white latex on damage.
Seed to 5 cm, like an orange-segment; sarcotesta vascularized.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), NE Borneo present
Malesia: NE Borneo and Celebes.