Dialium procerum
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Description
Large trees, up to 45 m high and 90 cm dbh; twigs light to greyish brown, lenticel- late, hairy when young, soon glabrescent.
Leaves unifoliolate; petiole (0.5 — )1 — 3 mm long only, petiolule as long as the petiole, glabrescent.
Sepals 3, elliptic, 3-4 mm long, minutely hairy inside.
Stamens 6; filaments 0.5-1 mm long; anthers linear, c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous or hairy on both sides of the connective.
Panicles axillary or (especially in side branches) terminal, sometimes in fascicles, rachis (6 — )9 — 15( — 16) cm; pedicels 2-4 mm long.
Ovary 1.5-2 mm long; style 0.5-1 mm, slightly recurved at apex.
Fruits ovoid, c. 4(-5) by 2.5 cm, slightly compressed, with distinct sulcate sutures, usually acute to cuneate at base, beaked or apiculate at apex; exocarp blackish, hairs easily detached and glabrescent.
Seeds reniform, c. 1.5 by 1 cm, testa chocolate brown, shiny.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Brunei present, Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei).