Suregada procera (Prain) Croizat

A completely glabrous, generally dioecious, sparingly branched evergreen shrub 2–7.5 m. tall or else a straggling to large, much-branched tree with a crooked bole and a heavy spreading crown up to 24 m. tall.. Wood coarse, white, hard.. Bark pale greenish grey and ± smooth, dark grey and granulate or almost black and rough.. Twigs slightly angled, green.. Petioles 3–5(–7) mm. long; leaf-blades elliptic to elliptic-ovate, (3–)5–12(–14) cm. long, 1.5–6.5 cm. wide, obtuse at the apex, asymmetrically cuneate or cuneate-rounded at the base, decurrent onto the petiole, entire or shallowly crenate or crenate-serrate, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, lateral nerves 6–11 pairs, weakly brochidodromous to camptodromous, tertiary and quaternary nerve-network reticulate, with the translucent pustules covering the entire surface of each reticulation, brightly-shining glossy medium to very dark green above, with the pustules often showing whitish beneath.. Stipules triangular, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, acute, entire, not ciliate; stipule-scars expanding to 2 mm. in length.. Inflorescences  few–many-flowered, shortly pedunculate to subsessile, fasciculate-glomerulate, up to 1.5 cm. across; bracts broadly triangular-ovate, not ciliate, often enveloped in a gummy exudate at least when young.. Male flowers: pedicels 1–2(–3) mm. long; buds subglobose, sparingly gland-dotted; sepals (5–)6(–7), not ciliate, in 2 series, the (2–)3 outer broadly ovate, convex, 3 mm. long and wide, greenish white or yellow-green with a paler margin, the 3(–4) inner suborbicular-ovate, becoming flat, 2.5 mm. long and wide, cream-coloured; receptacular glands interstaminal, depressed-hemispherical, ± confluent; stamens (16–)20–27, filaments 3 mm. long, glabrous, anthers 1 mm. long.. Female flowers: pedicels 2–3 mm. long, accrescent to 5–6 mm. in fruit, stouter than those of ♂; sepals 6(–8), resembling the outer ♂ sepals; disc crenate, slightly thickened; staminodes small, subulate, occasionally with minute abortive anthers at their apices; ovary (2–)3-locular, trilobate-subglobose, 2–3 mm. diameter; styles (2–)3, 1–2 mm. long, bifid, the stigmas linear-oblong, slightly lobulate.. Fruit (2–)3-locular, usually trilobate, (0.6–)0.8–1(–1.1) cm. long, (0.9–)1–1.2(–1.5) cm. diameter, dehiscent, ± smooth (somewhat reticulate and shallowly verruculate when dried), green; endocarp subligneous, ± 1 mm. thick.. Seeds ± ovoid, slightly lateroventrally compressed, 5–7 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, endotesta smooth, dark grey-brown, completely enclosed by the arillate sarcotesta which becomes pearly-grey on drying.. Fig. 71.

A subcanopy or understorey tree of low or medium elevations in mixed evergreen forest, also in riverine and gully forest and swamp forest, at elevations up to 2,133 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.