Dysoxylum papuanum
Description
Tree 10–40(–45) m; bole to 90(–130) cm diam., often with buttresses to 3 m tall, 3 m out and 12 cm thick.
Bark grey-brown smooth with corky lenticels in vertical rows, becoming fissured longitudinally and eventually flaking; inner bark straw mottled darker, darkening on exposure, frequently with acrid turnip smell, sapwood white to pinkish; heartwood red.
Leaves 25–40 cm, paripinnate, 4–6-jugate, distinctly pale abaxially; petiole 3–6 cm, terete, swollen at base, glabrous to softly brown pilose.
Petals 4 (or 5), 1.5–2 mm long, broadly ovate, acute, white or cream, fleshy, glabrous without, ± pubescent within, valvate, adnate to staminal tube at base.
Staminal tube cylindrical, glabrous to pubescent, very thin at base, margin 8(–10)-dentate or -lobed; anthers 8(–10), c. 0.8 mm long, included or slightly exserted opposite lobes, emarginate, ± hairy.
Ovary pilose, 2- or 3-locular; style ± glabrous; stylehead flattened capitate.
Capsule c. 2.5 cm diam., flattened globose, glabrous, white, drying 3-angled, pericarp with white sap (Womersley).
Seeds c. 15 mm long, ellipsoid, covered with red (?) aril.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, N Queensland present, Solomon Islands present
Australia (N Queensland), Solomon Islands and Malesia: New Guinea