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Toona fargesii A. Chev. in Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 24: 158. 1944; Bahadur, Monogr. Gen. Toona 107. 1988.


Tree, shortly branched, to 30 m tall; bark purplish brown; young parts pubescent. Leaves often imparipinnate, 30 - 50 cm long; rachis 8 - 10 cm long; leaflets 10 - 12 pairs, subopposite or alternate, ovate-lanceolate, unequally rounded at base, entire along margins,acuminate or cuspidate at apex, 11 - 14 x 3 - 5.5 cm,glabre scent above ,hirtellous on mid- and secondary nerves beneath; secondary nerves 11 - 12 on each side. Panicles erect, pyramidal, lax, 20 - 30 cm long, puberulous. Flower buds conical; bracts caducous; pedicels 2 - 4 mm long. Sepals ca 1 mm long, 1/4 as long as bud, united to 1/3 below, ciliate along edges, hairy outside, glabrous inside. Petals 4 - 5 mm long, tinged with purple, glabrous. Filaments glabrous. Disk 5-lobed, hairy. Ovary conical, glabrous; style glabrous.

Fl. & Fr. : May - July.

Distrib. India: Assam.

China and New Guinea.




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