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*''Alangium lamarckii'' Thwaites (1859).

*Sage-leaved alangium (En).

*Deciduous shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 18 m tall; bark surface rough and pale brown; twigs grey or purple-brown, glabrous or pubescent, often with spines up to 12 mm long. *Leaves alternate, simple, without stipules; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, hairy; blade elliptical to obovate, oblong or lanceolate, 3–23 cm × 1.5–9 cm, base cuneate or rounded, apex rounded to obtuse or acute, 3–9-veined from base. *Inflorescence an axillary cyme, sessile or nearly so, golden-brown pubescent, 1–17-flowered. *Flowers bisexual, regular, 5–10-merous, white, cream with a slight orange tinge, fragrant; buds cylindrical; pedicel 2–8 mm long; calyx tube urn-shaped, 1–2.5 mm long, lobes triangular, up to 1.5 mm long; petals strap-shaped, 12–28.5 mm × 1–2.5 mm, densely pubescent outside, glabrous or pubescent inside; stamens 10–32, 5–14 mm long; ovary inferior, 1–2-celled, style 8.5–27.5 mm long, glabrous, stigma conical or head-shaped, slightly lobed. *Fruit an ellipsoid drupe 9–22.5 mm long, purplish, pubescent, 1-seeded. *Seeds albuminous.