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*''Rhodoclada rhopaloides'' Baker (1884).

*Manoka jaune (Fr).

*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.