Gyrocarpus asiaticus Willd.

Habit: Tree

Deciduous trees, to 20 m high, bark silvery grey or greyish-yellow, smooth; blaze dull-yellow; leafscars prominent, shining; tender parts pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded at apex, estipulate; petiole 10-15 cm long, slender, puberulus; lamina 10-18 x 9-15 cm, broadly ovate, base truncate or subcordate, apex acute or acuminate; margin entire or some times 3-lobed, glabrous above and appressed pubescent below, chartaceous; 3-ribbed from base, palmate, lateral nerves 3-5 pairs, forked, intercostae scalariform, slender, faint. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow, in subterminal panicled cymes to 4 cm, tomentose; male flowers 5 mm across; tepals 4-7, to 1.5 mm, unequal, ovate, concave, pubescent; stamens 4-7, inserted at the bottom of the perianth, alternating with as many staminodes; filaments 2 mm; staminodes glandular, obtuse, flat; female flowers : 3 mm across; tepals 4-7, basally adnate to the ovary, pubescent; ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovule 1, pendulous; stigma inferior. Fruit a drupe, 1 x 0.8 cm, ovoid, pubescent, wings 2, oblanceolate; seed one.

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