Terminalia catappa

Trees to 20 m tall;trunk to 2 m dbh. Bark brownish black, longitudinally peeling. Branches spreading, forming tiers. Branchlets densely brownish yellow tomentose near apex, densely covered with conspicuous leaf scars. Leaves alternate, crowded into pseudo-whorls at apices of branchlets;petiole 0.5Ð2 cm, stout, tomentose;leaf blade obovate to oblanceolate, narrowed in proximal half, 12Ð30 ? 8Ð15 cm, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially sparsely softly hairy when young, base narrow, cordate or truncate, apex obtuse or mucronate;lateral veins in 10Ð12 pairs. Inflorescences axillary, simple, long, slender spikes, 15Ð20 cm, numerous flowered;axis shortly white tomentose. Flowers fragrant. Calyx tube distally cupular, 7Ð8 mm, abaxially white tomentose, densely so on ovary, sparsely so on cupular part, adaxially glabrous;lobes 5. Stamens 10, exserted, 2Ð3 mm. Fruit not stipitate, red or blackish green when ripe, ellipsoid, slightly to strongly compressed, strongly 2-ridged to narrowly 2-winged (wings to 3 mm wide), 3Ð5.5 ? 2Ð3.5 cm, glabrous;pericarp woody, rigid (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2017).