Treelet 3.0-6.0, rarely tree up to 15.0 m high; trunk up to 15.0 cm diam. Branchlets slender, tips only tomentellous and set with 2 or 3, sometimes up to 5 leaves, lower parts leafless, early corticate, atrescent and glabrescent. Leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, apex cuspidate-acuminate for 1.0-2.0 cm, acute, base broadly cuneate, very base obtuse, membranaceous to subchartaceous, softly pubescent to tomentulose on both faces though mainly on nerves and veins by more or less appressed pale whitish-greyish hairs, upper surface only glabrescent with age, denticulate-barbellate by veins protruding for ca 1.0 mm beyond the margin, (10.0-)15.0-24.0(-30.0) cm long, 8.0-15.0 cm broad, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs curved-ascending and indistinctly looping before the margin, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather coarse, slightly raised beneath; petiole swollen distally, tomentose, 1.0-2.0 cm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, hairy, ca 5.0 mm long, caducous. Flowers dioecious, [male] flowers 2 or 3 in an abbreviate corymbose raceme, rarely solitary, all over yellowish-tomentulose in the outer parts, on peduncle 1.0-2.0 cm long; pedicels 1.0-2.0 mm long. Sepals 2 or 3 (rarely 4), oblong-obovate to rounded, silky-tomentose outside, subglabrous inside, 1.5-2.0 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm broad. Petals ca 9, elongate-oblong or subspathulate, inner ones narrower, white-sericeous-tomentose on both faces, 2.5-3.0 cm long, 0.5-1.0 cm broad. Stamens (40-)50-60, densely hairy; filaments 3.0-4.0 mm long; anthers glabrous distally, 5.0-6.0(-7.0) mm long, the connective protruding for 1.5-2.0 mm beyond the cells. [female] flowers generally solitary. Sepals and petals similar to those in the [male] flowers and of the same number. Ovary narrowly ovoid, yellowish-tomentulose, with 5 plus 5 vertical slightly prominent ridges or ribs (reduced wings); styles ca 10; stigmas somewhat lacerate distally. Fruit subovoid-globose, a little apiculate, yellowish-greyish-tomentulose, in the place of wings provided with 5 stronger and 5 rather inconspicuous low vertical ribs or rows of tubercles, up to 7.0 cm long and 5.8 cm broad, finally dehiscent in 6 valves from the apex; pericarp coriaceous, not properly fibrose, almost woody, 4.0-6.0(-7.0) mm thick; peduncle ca 1.5 cm long, 3.0 mm thick. Seeds 10-25, ovoid-compressed, 0.8-1.0 cm long. Rather widespread though scattered in Amazonian Colombia and Brazil, sometimes together with Carpotroche grandiflora; substage treelet in high forest on terra firme, at low elevations up to ca 300 m alt. Bark said to be poisonous, used to catch armadillos. Rather widespread though scattered in Amazonian Colombia and Brazil, sometimes together with Carpotroche grandiflora; substage treelet in high forest on terra firme, at low elevations up to ca 300 m alt. Bark said to be poisonous, used to catch armadillos. Treelet 3.0-6.0, rarely tree up to 15.0 m high; trunk up to 15.0 cm diam. Branchlets slender, tips only tomentellous and set with 2 or 3, sometimes up to 5 leaves, lower parts leafless, early corticate, atrescent and glabrescent. Leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate, apex cuspidate-acuminate for 1.0-2.0 cm, acute, base broadly cuneate, very base obtuse, membranaceous to subchartaceous, softly pubescent to tomentulose on both faces though mainly on nerves and veins by more or less appressed pale whitish-greyish hairs, upper surface only glabrescent with age, denticulate-barbellate by veins protruding for ca 1.0 mm beyond the margin, (10.0-)15.0-24.0(-30.0) cm long, 8.0-15.0 cm broad, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs curved-ascending and indistinctly looping before the margin, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets rather coarse, slightly raised beneath; petiole swollen distally, tomentose, 1.0-2.0 cm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, hairy, ca 5.0 mm long, caducous. Flowers dioecious, [male] flowers 2 or 3 in an abbreviate corymbose raceme, rarely solitary, all over yellowish-tomentulose in the outer parts, on peduncle 1.0-2.0 cm long; pedicels 1.0-2.0 mm long. Sepals 2 or 3 (rarely 4), oblong-obovate to rounded, silky-tomentose outside, subglabrous inside, 1.5-2.0 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm broad. Petals ca 9, elongate-oblong or subspathulate, inner ones narrower, white-sericeous-tomentose on both faces, 2.5-3.0 cm long, 0.5-1.0 cm broad. Stamens (40-)50-60, densely hairy; filaments 3.0-4.0 mm long; anthers glabrous distally, 5.0-6.0(-7.0) mm long, the connective protruding for 1.5-2.0 mm beyond the cells. [female] flowers generally solitary. Sepals and petals similar to those in the [male] flowers and of the same number. Ovary narrowly ovoid, yellowish-tomentulose, with 5 plus 5 vertical slightly prominent ridges or ribs (reduced wings); styles ca 10; stigmas somewhat lacerate distally. Fruit subovoid-globose, a little apiculate, yellowish-greyish-tomentulose, in the place of wings provided with 5 stronger and 5 rather inconspicuous low vertical ribs or rows of tubercles, up to 7.0 cm long and 5.8 cm broad, finally dehiscent in 6 valves from the apex; pericarp coriaceous, not properly fibrose, almost woody, 4.0-6.0(-7.0) mm thick; peduncle ca 1.5 cm long, 3.0 mm thick. Seeds 10-25, ovoid-compressed, 0.8-1.0 cm long.General Information
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