Deep yellow wood

(Rhodosphaera rhodanthema)

galery

Description

Tree to 20 m high with brown to grey scaly bark; branchlets with reddish lenticels. Leaves mostly 8–20 cm long; leaflets 3–11, oblong-ovate to narrow-elliptic, 3–10 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, apex short-acuminate, base obtuse, asymmetric with midvein curved, both surfaces ± glabrous except for small red-brown hairy domatia on lower surface; petiole 3–8 cm long, petiolules 3–5 mm long. Panicles mostly 10–20 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long, bracteate. Sepals 1.8–2 mm long. Petals c. 3 mm long, pinkish red.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Sapindales
Family:Anacardiaceae
Genus:Rhodosphaera
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