Chisocheton laosensis
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Description
Tree to 20 m.
Leaves to 50 cm, pseudogemmulate; petiole 5–8 cm.
Inflorescences on supra-axillary branches to 90 cm long, with reduced caducous leaves, the whole resembling a supra-axillary thyrse, each to 25 cm long, not or sparsely branched with congested cymules of flowers; bracts lanceolate.
Petals 4,11–14 by 2.5 mm, linear-oblong, adpressed pubescent without, glabrous within, drying blackish, alternative to imbricate.
Staminal tube glabrous except for a few hairs in notches of lobes without and towards base within, margin 7- or 8-crenulate or -lobed; anthers 6–8, oblong-elliptic, locellate, glabrous, included.
Ovary apparently 2-locular; style filiform, papillose, pubescent in proximal half; stylehead subglobular, glabrous with an equatorial papillose band.
Capsule to 3 cm long, 2.5 cm diam., rusty tomentose; valves 3 or 4.
Seeds 1 or 2, c. 15 mm long, apparently arillate.