Lepidopetalum fructoglabrum Welzen

Tree, 10-17 m high, dbh 7.5-50 cm; outer bark blotched light and dark grey to dark brown, smooth to finely tessellated to rather warty, inner bark pinkish to reddish brown, hard; wood cream to dark straw, moderately hard and heavy, heartwood reddish brown. Flowering branchlets 1-4 mm in diam.Leaves 3-or 4-jugate; rachis 2.7-14.5 cm long,terete, subsericeous. Leaflets 3.2-17.5 by 1.4-6.1cm; apex (acuminate to) caudate, very apex emar ginate to rounded; upper surface glaucous when dry. Inflorescences mainly axillary to pseudoterminal, axes branching in axil and along rachis, all up to 7.5 cm long. Bracts and bracteoles triangular; bracts 0.6-1 mm long; bracteoles 0.3-0.8 mm long. Pedicels subglabrous, upper part up to 5.7 mm: long, glabrous except for some glandular hairs. Flowers 3.5-4.3 mm in diam. Sepals 5; lobes 1.3-1.8 by 0.7-1.1 mm, subglabrous. Petals 5; blade 0.8-1 by 0.7-1.3 mm, subpilose; scale 0.7-1.3 by 1-.6 mm; crest absent (to well developed central ribs). Disc uninterrupted, c. 0.6 by 0.5 mm, broader than high. Stamens 8; filaments white, in male flowers 2.7-3.3 mm long, in female flowers 0.5-1.5 mm long; anthers 0.8-1.1 by 0.5-0.8 mm, yellowish. Pistil: ovary in male flowers c. 0.3 mm high, up to 2.6 mm high in female flowers, 2-locular, subglabrous; style and stigma in male flowers c. 0.1 mm high, in female flowers up to 1.3 mm high. Fruits 2-2.2 by 1.2-1.4 cm, inside glabrous; stipe absent. Seeds 1.1-1.3 by c. 0.9 cm, base straight; sarcotesta only around hilum, forming slight ob-pyramidal outgrowth below seed; hilum 2-4 mm long.

Grows in rainforest.