Dysoxylum carolinae
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Description
Tree to 45 m; bole to 110 cm diam., fluted; buttresses to 3 m tall and out, concave.
Bark smooth with large lenticels to 6 mm long, to flaking, grey to dark brown; inner bark white with coarse orange flecks and strong smell of stewing vegetables (fide Kochummen); wood yellow brown.
Leaves c. 10– 18 cm long, paripinnate, 3–5-jugate with small apical scar; petiole c. 5–8 cm; rachis ± finely winged.
Flowers faintly citronella-scented.
Petals 4, c. 6 mm long, puberulous without.
Staminal tube narrowed at apex, puberulous without, becoming yellow; anthers 8, c. 0.8 mm long, ovate, weakly exserted.
Ovary 4-locular, each locule with 1 ovule.
Capsule to 5 cm long and 7 cm diam., depressed globose, splitting into 4, orange-red.
Seeds 1 or 2 (3), c. 3 cm long, 2.5 cm across, black with orange sarcotesta; cotyledons green.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Brunei present, Sabah present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Vietnam (Vietnam present)
Vietnam (one collection) and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (extinct in Singapore, the only known tree, at MacRitchie Reservoir, having been felled during the Japanese occupation), Borneo (Brunei, Sabah). Collected in flower only once (the type).