Alstonia breviloba
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Description
Tree 17-28 m high, 30-60 cm dbh, without buttresses.
Bark scaly or both shallowly longitudinally and horizontally fissured (sometimes corky areas present), grey;
Branchlets glabrous.
Leaves in whorls of 3;
Inflorescence 4-5 cm long, many-flowered;
Flowers: Sepals connate at the base for c. 0.9 mm, ovate, 2.2-2.6 by 1.2-2 mm, apex obtuse or rounded, ciliate, glabrous or minutely hairy at the base outside, glabrous inside, erect.
Stamens inserted at 3.1-3.8 mm from the base;
Fruit a pair of follicles, 20-45 cm by 4-5 mm, glabrous.
Seeds dark brown, elliptic, 7-9 by 3-3.3 mm, pubescent on both sides, one end acuminate with an acumen 1-2.6 mm long, the other end rounded (sometimes obtuse);