Terminalia brassii Exell

Large, flange-buttressed tree, up to 50 m. Bark scaly brown. Young branchlets tomentose or nearly glabrous. Leaves alternate or sometimes subopposite, subcoriaceous, varying from tomentose to nearly glabrous, narrowly oblong, narrowly oblong-ellptic, oblong-ellptic or elliptic 5-9 by 3-6 cm, usually gradually narrowed and pointed at the apex (sometimes rounded) rounded or sub-cordate at the base; nerves 20-35 pairs; petiole tomentose-pubescent or glabrous 5-10 mm, with 2 conspicuous, glabrous suborbicular glands at or near the apex. Flowers pale green sessile in terminal and axillary panicles 8-13 cm long; rhachis tomentose. Lower receptacle (ovary) tomentose 1½-2 mm long elongating to 5-8 mm before the wings develop; upper receptacle cupuliform 1 by 1-2 mm, persistent; calyx-lobes scarcely developed. Filaments 2½-3½ mm; anthers0.3 mm long. Disk rather fleshy, pilosulose. Style glabrous, 2½ mm. Fruit pubescent suborbicular, obovate or ovate in outline, 1-1½ by 0.8-1.3 cm, with 2 well-developed thin flexible wings and 3 rudimentary ones, crowned at the apex by the remains of the persistent calyx.

A pioneer species and canopy tree, usually found gregariously in freshwater swamps or along rivers on sandy or even gravelly soils, occasionally scattered in drier areas. Occasional in drier areas, where it is often unbuttressed.

Uses. The sapwood is pale brownish-yellow, porous, straight-grained, somewhat stringy and of medium weight (according to E. P. Holmes). It is probably not in commercial use.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.