Dioecious shrub or tree 5.0-10.0 (sometimes -25.0) m tall; trunk up to 30.0 cm diam; bark smooth, gray. Branchlets thick with large scars of fallen leaves below, tips golden-ferruginous-tomentulose as are the leaves and petioles initially. Leaves periodically deciduous (branchlets leafless usually in flowering time), elliptic-oblong to -obovate, apex shortly acutely acuminate or cuspidate, base cuneate though obtuse at very base, chartaceous, denticulate-barbellate by the protruding veins, more or less densely golden-ferruginous-tomentulose with substrigose hairs on midrib, nerves and veins on both faces initially, glabrescent with age, 15.0-37.0(-46.0) cm long, (5.0-)7.0-14.0(-17.0, -26.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 12-14(-16) pairs curved-ascending, excurrent before the margin (not properly looping), slightly prominent beneath, reticulation rather coarse, slightly raised beneath; petiole 1.5-3.0(-5.0) cm long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, sericeous, up to 1.0 cm long, [male] flowers solitary or generally 2 or 3 together in an abbreviated raceme, in the axils or leaves of a new shoot; pedicels ferruginous-tomentulose, articulate in the lowe 1/3, (0.5-)1.0-1.5 cm long. Sepals 3, obovate-suborbicular, yellowish-sericeous dorsally, glabrescent internally, 1.2-1.5 cm diam. Petals 9-10, oblong-obovate, apex rounded, base attenuate, outer ones (2.0-)2.5-3.0 cm long, ca 1.0 cm broad, inner ones gradually decreasing in size, densely yellowish-sericeous dorsally, much less so except their lower part internally, white, membranous. Stamens ca 80; filaments hirsute, 1:5-2.0 mm long; anthers 6.0-8.0 mm long, their connective not protruding beyond the cell. Rudiment of ovary 0. 9 flowers not known yet. Capsule subglobose, greenish, ca 6.0 cm diam, the (10-)12(-14) papery plicate wings (up to 1.0 cm wide) dextrorsely appressed to the pericarp, all over short-pubescent; styles 5 or 6, short; stigmas capitate-lacerate; pericarp ca 2.0 mm thick. Fruit finally dehiscent in form of a star with ca 7 valves; seeds numerous, compressed, ca 1.0 cm long. In Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil, scattered, sometimes together with Carpotroche amazonica, a fact which explains the confusion in Flora Brasiliensis around these species; in upland forest at low elevations. The bark is said to be poisonous. In Amazonian Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil, scattered, sometimes together with Carpotroche amazonica, a fact which explains the confusion in Flora Brasiliensis around these species; in upland forest at low elevations. The bark is said to be poisonous. Dioecious shrub or tree 5.0-10.0 (sometimes -25.0) m tall; trunk up to 30.0 cm diam; bark smooth, gray. Branchlets thick with large scars of fallen leaves below, tips golden-ferruginous-tomentulose as are the leaves and petioles initially. Leaves periodically deciduous (branchlets leafless usually in flowering time), elliptic-oblong to -obovate, apex shortly acutely acuminate or cuspidate, base cuneate though obtuse at very base, chartaceous, denticulate-barbellate by the protruding veins, more or less densely golden-ferruginous-tomentulose with substrigose hairs on midrib, nerves and veins on both faces initially, glabrescent with age, 15.0-37.0(-46.0) cm long, (5.0-)7.0-14.0(-17.0, -26.0) cm broad, lateral nerves 12-14(-16) pairs curved-ascending, excurrent before the margin (not properly looping), slightly prominent beneath, reticulation rather coarse, slightly raised beneath; petiole 1.5-3.0(-5.0) cm long; stipules ovate-lanceolate, sericeous, up to 1.0 cm long, [male] flowers solitary or generally 2 or 3 together in an abbreviated raceme, in the axils or leaves of a new shoot; pedicels ferruginous-tomentulose, articulate in the lowe 1/3, (0.5-)1.0-1.5 cm long. Sepals 3, obovate-suborbicular, yellowish-sericeous dorsally, glabrescent internally, 1.2-1.5 cm diam. Petals 9-10, oblong-obovate, apex rounded, base attenuate, outer ones (2.0-)2.5-3.0 cm long, ca 1.0 cm broad, inner ones gradually decreasing in size, densely yellowish-sericeous dorsally, much less so except their lower part internally, white, membranous. Stamens ca 80; filaments hirsute, 1:5-2.0 mm long; anthers 6.0-8.0 mm long, their connective not protruding beyond the cell. Rudiment of ovary 0. 9 flowers not known yet. Capsule subglobose, greenish, ca 6.0 cm diam, the (10-)12(-14) papery plicate wings (up to 1.0 cm wide) dextrorsely appressed to the pericarp, all over short-pubescent; styles 5 or 6, short; stigmas capitate-lacerate; pericarp ca 2.0 mm thick. Fruit finally dehiscent in form of a star with ca 7 valves; seeds numerous, compressed, ca 1.0 cm long.General Information
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