Cordia millenii Baker

Shrub to tall tree, 4–32 m. tall, with spreading crown and thick ± short rarely straight bole, 9–12 m. long, bearing short blunt buttresses; bark pale brown, greenish grey or grey-brown, rough and fibrous, flaking in oblong pieces; slash pale yellow turning blackish orange or pale creamy brown, fibrous and layered, turning rapidly through greenish to dark brown; young shoots ferruginous-pubescent.. Leaf-blades rounded-obovate, ovate-elliptic to almost round, (3.5–)9–15(–33) cm. long, (2–)6–11.5(–26) cm. wide, ± rounded to acuminate at the apex, rounded to cordate at the base, entire or crenulate, scabrid or glabrous above, tomentose-pilose or softly velvety pubescent beneath or hairy only on the venation which is raised and reticulate beneath; petiole 2.5–7.5(–16) cm. long, ferruginous-pilose, leaving marked scars after leaf-fall.. Cymes condensed, in large panicles 20–45 cm. long; peduncles to 17 cm. long, secondary axes up to 4 cm. long; pedicels short or obsolete, articulate.. Flowers unisexual, very sweetly scented.. Male: calyx tubular-campanulate, 0.8–1.2 cm. long, 3–4-toothed or ± 2-lipped, fulvous-tomentose, ± ribbed; corolla white, yellow or greenish yellow, or cream; tube cylindric-campanulate, 0.7–1.2 cm. long; limb 1.2–1.5 cm. wide, the lobes 5–7, oblong, elliptic or narrowly ovate, 4.5–7 mm. long, 1.8–2.5 mm. wide; stamens 5–7, exserted, with filaments 5–9 mm. long; rudimentary ovary subglobose, 0.5–0.9 mm. diameter, with an apical tuft of hairs.. Female: calyx more tubular, 6–10 mm. long, 3–4-lobed; corolla-tube 5–10(–12) mm. long; limb with lobes similar to ♂ but elliptic-oblong to ovate, 4.5–6.5 mm. long, 2.5–4 mm. wide; stamens 5A2—7, scarcely exserted, the pilose filaments 2.5–3.5 mm. long, sterile; ovary ovoid, 3.5 mm. long, 2 mm. diameter, glabrous; style 5 mm. long with 2 branches 3 mm. long, each with stigmatic branches linear, flattened 4–6 mm. long, fimbriate, exserted.. Fruit obovoid, ellipsoid or ovoid, 2–4.4 cm. long, 1.4–3 cm. diameter, shortly apiculate, sitting in an enlarged calycine cupule 1.7–2 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide; putamen subquadrate, grooved, with 1–2 locules developed; seeds 1–2.. Figs. 1/6,7, p. 8; 3, p. 14.

Rainforests, being found in both dense primary formations and secondary formations at elevations up to 1,650 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.