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Dysoxylum densiforum Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno Batavum 4: 9. 1868; Balakr. in Bull. Bot. Surv. India 25: 59. 1982.


Tree, 15 - 30 m tall. Leaves 30 - 40 cm long; leaflet 13 - 19, alternate, elliptic-oblong, ovate or obovate, rounded or subcuneate at base, entire along margins, acute or acuminate at apex, 5 - 25 x 0.3 - 1 cm, glabrous or shortly puberulous on nerves beneath; secondary nerves 10 - 15 on each side, prominent beneath; petiolules 2 - 8 mm long, puberulous. Racemose spikes 3 - 9 cm long, fascicled. Flowers bracteate, ca 1.5 cm long, scented, white; pedicels to 2 mm long, pubescent. Calyx cup-shaped, 3 - 4 mm long, hairy with 4 rounded lobes. Petals 4, linear-oblong, obtuse, recurved and curled back in upper half, 10 - 12 x 2 - 3 mm, pubescent outside. Staminal tube cylindric, shorter than petals, glabrous outside, puberulous inside, 8-toothed at apex; anthers 7 - 8, included or partly exserted. Disk glabrous, cylindric, silky-hairy, 4 locular; style hairy; stigma capitate, subpeltate. Capsules obovoid-ellipsoid, 4 - 6 cm long, minutely pubescent.

Fl. & Fr. Nov. - Mar.

Distrib. India: Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Great Nicobar.

Malesia.




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