Dysoxylum magnificum
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Description
Tree to 15(–25) m; all parts onion-scented when bruised; bole to 25 cm diam., fluted with buttresses to 30 cm tall and out.
Bark smooth to cracking into small blocks, often hooped and with prominent brown lenticels, brownish; inner bark pinkish brown; sapwood pale cream.
Leaves to 1 m long, in lax terminal spirals; petiole 8–14 cm, flattened to channelled adaxially, ± densely velutinous, swollen at base.
Petals 5, c. 12 by 2.5 mm, narrowly spathulate, valvate, white, densely adpressed pubescent without, tips acute, thickened.
Staminal tube white, glabrous, margin subcrenulate; anthers 10, c. 1.5 mm long, narrowly oblong, sublocellate, glabrous, inserted c. 3 mm within tube, free filament c. 0.5 mm.
Ovary densely adpressed hairy, (?) 3-locular, each locule (?) 2-ovulate; style terete, adpressed pubescent; stylehead capitate c. 0.8 mm diam.
Capsule up to at least 8 cm diam., flattened-globose, deeply sunken between the 2 or 3 fertile locules, brown and velvety when young, pale cream when riper.
Seeds c. 2 cm diam., subhemispherical, flattened adaxially, covered with shining thick sarcotesta (?), pink when mature.