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''Beilschmiedia grandiflora'' (Kosterm.) Kosterm. (1952).

== Origin and geographic distribution ==

The heartwood is beige and not sharply demarcated from the somewhat paler sapwood. The density of the wood is 500–620 kg/m³ at 12% moisture content. The wood dries rapidly, with only slight risk of distortion. Shrinkage rates are moderate, from green to oven dry 4.0% radial and 8.5% tangential. At 12% moisture content the modulus of rupture is about 46 N/mm², modulus of elasticity 8700 N/mm², compression parallel to grain 46 N/mm² and Chalais-Meudon side hardness 2.1. The wood is easy to work. Nailing, screwing and gluing do not cause problems, painting and varnishing give good results and a smooth surface is generally produced. The wood is not durable and susceptible to attack by fungi and wood borer insects. The wood impregnates well under pressure in autoclaves.

Medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall; inner bark reddish, brittle; young branches glabrous to brown-hairy. Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 1–2.5(–3) cm long; blade elliptical or ovate, 9–20(–28) cm × 4–11(–20) cm, base obtuse to acute, apex acute or shortly acuminate, papery, upper surface glabrous or somewhat hairy on major veins, lower surface glaucous and sparsely hairy to densely brown-hairy, pinnately veined with 7–12 pairs of lateral veins. Inflorescence an axillary panicle 4–10 cm long, many-flowered. Flowers bisexual, regular, greenish; perianth with 2 series of 3 tepals, up to 4 mm long, brown-hairy on both surfaces; stamens 9, in 3 whorls of 3, inner ones with 2 glands near the base, staminodes 3; ovary superior, gradually narrowing into the short style. Fruit an ellipsoid to roundish berry c. 3 cm in diameter, 1-seeded.

''Beilschmiedia velutina'' flowers and fruits year round.

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