Heywoodia lucens Sim

A large, much-branched glabrous tree up to 30 m.. Bark rough, greyish brown, cracking and flaking off.. Twigs pale grey or greyish brown.. Young shoots 4-angled at first, soon becoming terete.. Petioles 1–2(–4) cm. long.. Leaf-blade broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, peltate or basally attached, 4–15(–25) cm. long, 2–12(–15) cm. wide, shortly obtusely or subacutely acuminate, cuneate, rounded, truncate or, less often, shallowly cordate at base, entire, firmly coriaceous, shiny, lateral nerves 6–8(–13) pairs, 2–3 of these somewhat crowded at the base in the juvenile peltate leaves, looped well within the margin, and often with another series of loops towards the margin, tertiary nerves loosely reticulate, slightly prominent above, somewhat more so beneath, dark green above, grey-green beneath.. Stipules triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm. long, acute, very fugacious.. Male flowers: bracts transversely ovate, 1 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, somewhat erose, chaffy; sepals resembling the bracts, but a little larger, and ciliolate; petals elliptic-oblong, 2–2.5 mm. long, 0.75 mm. broad, slightly erose, membranous; disc 0.75 mm. diameter; stamens 3 mm. long, anthers 1 mm. long; pistillode 1 mm. long.. Female flowers: bracts as in the ♂ flowers; pedicels 3–5 mm. long, extending or not to up to 1 cm. long in fruit, with 1–2 sepaloid bracteoles ± half-way along; sepals 2–3 and petals 5–6, resembling those of the ♂ flowers; disc 1.5 mm. diameter; staminodes 1 mm. long; ovary ovoid-subglobose, 1.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. diameter; stigmas 0.5 mm. long, slightly papillose.. Fruit 1 cm. long, 1.5 cm. diameter; endocarp 1 mm. thick, with 3–4 vascular traces on the septum; columella 5–7 mm. long.. Seeds 7–8 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, greyish-brown to dark brown.. Fig. 12.