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<big>''[[Asteropeia rhopaloides]]'' (Baker) Baill.</big>

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:Protologue: Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 561 (1886).

The wood is fairly easy to saw when stellite-tipped saw teeth are used. It takes an excellent polish, but picking up of grain may occur in planing when interlocked grain is present. Pre-boring is needed for nailing; the wood is liable to splitting. The wood glues with some difficulty, but varnishes and waxes well. It is very durable, being resistant to fungal and termite attacks. The heartwood is resistant to impregnation by preservatives, but the sapwood is only moderately resistant.

Evergreen small to medium-sized tree up to 25(–30) m tall; bole up to 75 cm in diameter; bark surface dark grey to blackish, inner bark granular; young twigs rusty brown short-hairy. Leaves arranged spirally, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 5–7 mm long, thick; blade obovate to oblong, 4.5–9 cm × 2.5–5 cm, cuneate at base, rounded or notched, sometimes slightly acuminate at apex, leathery, glabrous, pinnately veined. Inflorescence a terminal, deltoid panicle up to 9 cm long, rusty brown short-hairy. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous; pedicel 1–3 mm long, jointed; sepals free, ovate-oblong, 2–2.5 mm long but enlarging up to 6 mm in fruit; petals free, oblong, c. 4 mm long, caducous; stamens 10, free, up to 4 mm long; ovary superior, incompletely 3-celled, style cylindrical, with 3 stigmas. Fruit a globose capsule c. 4 mm long, finely warty, glabrous, irregularly dehiscent, 1-seeded.

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