Canarium schweinfurtii Engl.

Tree up to 40 m. tall with a massive straight cylindrical trunk and widely spreading branches; bark grey, rough; young branches ferruginous-pubescent, soon glabrescent.. Leaves up to 50 cm. long; petiole up to ± 5 cm., flattened above, slightly winged at the base, like the rhachis and petiolules ferruginous-pubescent, sometimes sparsely so; stipules oblong-spathulate, inserted on the petiole well above the base, enclosing the terminal bud, very caducous; petiolules 1–6 mm. long; leaflets 17–25(–45), stiff, entire, dark brownish green when dry, oblong, cordate at the base, acute-acuminate at the apex, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent above, more densely pubescent beneath, especially on the nerves, up to 15(–18) cm. long × 4(–5.5) cm. wide; primary lateral nerves in ± 15 pairs; nerve network dense, prominent beneath, less so above.. Panicles dense, ferruginous-tomentellous, less than 4 cm. wide, up to 30 cm. long, including a peduncle of up to 12 cm.; pedicels 1–5 mm. long, lengthening to 15 mm. in fruit.. Calyx up to 10 mm. long, funnel-shaped, lobed about halfway, ferruginous tomentellous without and within.. Petals creamy white, up to 12 mm. long, lanceolate, keeled, greyish-tomentellous outside, glabrous within.. Stamens inserted on the pubescent tubular disc; anthers, filaments and disc each ± 2 mm. long in ♂ flowers, ± half as long in the ♀.. Ovary (absent in ♂ flowers) ovoid, glabrous; style ± 2 mm. long; stigma subglobose, 3-lobed.. Fruit purplish, ellipsoid, up to 4 cm. long and 2 cm. wide; stone trigonous-spindle-shaped, nearly as long as the fruit.. Cotyledons divided into 3 linear-elliptic leaflets, each of the 2 lateral leaflets deeply bifid; first foliage leaves oblong, entire.. Fig. 1/1–8.