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Dysoxylum microbotrys King in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 64: 48. 1895; Deb & Datta in J. Econ. Tax. Bot. 10: 31. 1987.


Tree, 12 - 18 m tall. Leaves paripinnate, 30 - 50 cm long; rachises and petiolules almost glabrous; leaflets ca 3 pairs, opposite, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, cuneate at base, cuspidate at apex, 15 - 25 x 6.5 - 9 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; secondary nerves 9 - 11 on each side; petiolules 5 - 8 mm long. Flowers in extraaxilary few-flowered spike-like 10 - 20 cm long cymes, or solitary, ca 1.25 cm long; pedicels ca 3 mm long, bracteolate. Calyxa shallow, slightly 4-toothed cup. Petals 4, oblong, slightly widened at base, subacute at apex, thickened and incurved, puberulous. Staminal tube slightly shorter than petals and style, puberulous; anthers 8, narrowly elliptic, included. Disk tubular, longer than ovary, puberulous; mouth thickened, rugulose, pilose. Ovary ovoid-conic, pubescent, 4-locular; locules 2-ovuled; style 4-angled, pubescent in lower half, glabrous in upper half; stigma discoid with a narrow annular band at base. Fruits pyriform, 4 - 6 x 3 - 3.7 cm, subglabrous; pericarp thick; seeds plano-convex, ca 1.8 cm long.

Distrib. India: Mizoram.

Malesia.




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