Aspidosperma megalocarpon Müll.Arg.

Trees, to 25 m, latex yellow to red, the younger stems minutely and densely pubescent. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic, acute, obtuse basally, to 26 cm long and 7 cm wide, glabrous, subcoriaceous, lustrous above and dull beneath; peti-oles ca. 1-3 cm long. Inflorescences corymbose-thyrsiform, axillary or terminal at the uppermost nodes, the bracts not apparent. Flowers with the pedicels 1-2 mm long; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes somewhat unequal, ovate, ca. 2 mm long, densely brown-white pubescent; corolla tubular-salverform, yellow to white, glabrous, the tube straight and angular, ca. 4 mm long, the lobes narrowly-triangular, ca. 1.5 mm long, erect; stamens inserted ca. midway on the corolla tube, the anthers ca. 0.8-1 mm long; ovary somewhat compressed, the stigma capitate. Follicles compressed, oval, woody, brown-tomentose, to 13 cm long and

Lowland forest. Wet forests on mountains. Dense, dry forests, and also in river bottom forests.

Can be grown by seedlings.