Marquesia macroura Gilg

Tree 12–25 m. tall with rounded crown; bole often wavy and usually fluted, buttressed at the base; bark slightly rough, with fairly long fissures, thin, with tendency to scale in longitudinal pieces; slash–inner bark, thin dark red line then reddish brown becoming rich brown and fading to creamy brown, slightly fibrous; sapwood creamy white; branchlets pubescent, soon ± glabrous.. Leaf-blades oblong-elliptic to ± ovate, 4–10 cm. long, 1.5–5 cm. wide, rounded to distinctly acuminate at the apex, rounded to slightly cordate at the base, glabrous or puberulous and finely reticulate above, finely whitish tomentose beneath with very short dense straight simple hairs on nerves and reticulation hiding the glabrous areoles, nerves and main veins often less pubescent; petiole 5–10 cm. long.. Inflorescences subumbellate cymes 2–9 cm. long, axillary, pedunculate, many-flowered, sweetly scented, the rhachis velvety pubescent; pedicels 2–3 mm. long.. Sepals ovate, 1–2 mm. long, densely brown or grey velvety pubescent.. Petals white, 6.5–8 mm. long, 2.5–2.8 mm. wide, minutely puberulous or ± glabrous.. Fruit ovoid, 5–8 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, ± net-veined, densely pubescent; wings narrowly oblong, 2–3.5 cm. long, 3–6 mm. wide, venose with sparse short hairs or glabrescent.. Fig. 1.

It is a tropical plant. It grows as dry evergreen forests on sandy or loamy soils.