Loxostylis alata Spreng. ex Rchb.

Tree or shrub, 2-10 m high; evergreen, dioecious, bark pale grey. Leaves sessile, petiolate, spirally arranged, pinnately compound, rachis winged; leaflets dark glossy green, narrowly elliptic, margins entire. Flowers in terminal panicles; parts in fours or fives; sepals large, petal-like, pink or brick-red, elliptic; petals small, star-like, creamy white, falling very early. Male flowers: 4 or 5 stamens. Female flowers: ovary obliquely ovoid. Flowering time Sept.-May. Fruit fleshy, small, embedded in persistent, pink sepals, skin contains a black, sticky substance that is difficult to wash off hands.