Toona microcarpa
(C.DC.) Harms in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3: 270.
1896; Bahadur, Monoge. Gen. Toona 109. 1988. Cedrela microcarpa C.DC. in A. DC. &
C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 745. 1878. C. febrifuga Blume var. verrucosa C.DC. in Rec. Bot.
Surv. India 3: 374. 1908. C. toona Roxb. ex Rottler var. pilipetala C. DC., l.c. 367.
Large evergreen or deciduous tree; branchlets with verrucose lenticels, puberulous
and brown when young dark-rubescent and glabrous when maure; bark with characteristic garlic odour. Leaves abruptly pinnate , to 50 cm long; rachis to 15 cm long; leaflets
8 - 10 pairs, opposite, oblong-ovate, obliquely round at base, entire along margins,
acuminate at apex, 10 -
14 x 4 - 6 cm; secondary nerves 8 -
12 on each side; petiolules ca
5 mm long. Panicles shortly branched, shorter than leaves, hairy. Flowers small,
bracteate; pedicels ca 1 mm long. Sepals 5, free, rounded, densely hairy, ciliate along
margins. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, subacute at base, rounded at apex, ca 6 x 3 mm, ciliate
along margins, glabrous or sometimes pilose. Filaments pilose; anthers apiculate. Disk
and ovary densely hirsute; style glabrous or hirsute. Capsules ovoid or spindle-shaped,
1.5 - 4 cm long, warty, prominently verruculose, dark brown.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
1a. Leaflets to 10 x 4 cm; panicles puberulous; petals pilose inside; style hirsute