Changes

*''Enantia polycarpa'' (DC.) Engl. & Diels (1901).

*African yellow wood, yellow wood (En). *Moambe jaune (Fr).

*Small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall; bole usually straight and cylindrical, up to 40 cm in diameter, without buttresses; bark smooth to slightly rough or fissured, green to blackish, inner bark fibrous, bright yellow; crown often small with horizontal branches; twigs glabrous, pale brown. *Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole 3–8 mm long; blade narrowly elliptical to obovate, 5–27 cm × 2–8 cm, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, leathery, minutely hairy above, short-hairy with stellate hairs below, pinnately veined with 8–13 pairs of lateral veins. *Flowers solitary on young shoots, bisexual, regular, 3-merous; pedicel 1–2(–2.5) cm long, short-hairy; sepals triangular, 1–2 cm long, hairy outside; petals opposite the sepals, elliptical, 2.5–3.5 cm long, fleshy, densely hairy and green outside, glabrous and yellow inside; stamens numerous, 3–3.5 mm long; carpels numerous, 2.5–3 mm long, hairy, stigma sessile. *Fruit consisting of 5–55 indehiscent, ellipsoid to obovoid follicles 2–2.5 cm long, red to blackish when ripe, on reddish stalk up to 6 cm long, 1-seeded. *Seed oblong to obovoid, slightly warty. *Seedling with epigeal germination; hypocotyl 8–12 cm long, swollen at base, hairy, epicotyl 3–10 mm long, hairy; cotyledons remaining within the seed coat, leafy; first leaves opposite.

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