Carapa parviflora Harms

Tree, 10–20 m tall, 10–30 cm dbh. Bole divided low into two to several erect stems, Buttresses low or absent; bark thin, smooth, pale grey outside, pink in slash; branches arching downwards. Leaves (50–)75–115 cm long, petiole (6–)10–25 × 0.5–0.9 cm, base swollen, generally with up to 32 nectaries; rachis (45–) 60–100 cm long, glabrous; leaflets 9–15 pairs, petiolule 0.5–1.5 cm long; basal leaflet pairs 7–13 × 4–7 cm; ultimate pairs up to 23–42 × 6–14 cm, glabrous beneath, oblong to elliptic, the apex acuminate, abruptly acuminate or rarely rounded, mucronate, the base rounded to cuneate; midrib prominent beneath, glabrous, secondary veins (4–) 7–15 pairs, tertiary veins dense, impressed. Inflorescence in the axils of fully developped or reduced scalelike leaves, 60–120 cm long, pendulous, very much-branched, lowermost branches up to 30 cm long, peduncle 7–15 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, distinctly pedicellate, pedicel 1.5–4 (–6) mm long, puberulous. Calyx reddish brown to dark red, glabrous, lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Petals 2.5–5 × 1.5–3.5 mm, light-pink to reddish-brown, glabrous, each with a gland towards the apex. Staminal tube 2–3.5 mm long, 10-lobed, lobes 0.3–0.8 mm long, reflexed. Anthers 0.6–0.9 × 0.4–0.6 mm; antherodes ca. 0.4 × ca. 0.3 mm. Disk 0.7–1 mm high, 2–3.2 mm diameter, white. Ovary 1.3–1.5 × 0.7–1.2 mm in carpellate flowers; 06–1.5 × 0.5–1.2 mm in staminate flowers; locules 4-ovulate; style ca. 0.5 mm long in carpellate flowers, 0.5–1.5 mm long in staminate flowers; stigma 1–1.4 mm in diameter. Fruit (7–) 12–22 × 7–13 cm, globose to elliptic, light brown, stipitate, valves with a median rib, lacking warty excrescences, surface with numerous nectaries. Seeds 3–4 × 4–4.5 cm, 4 per valve; hilum 1–1.8 × 0.6–1 cm; testa dark brown, pitted.

Source: Kenfack D. 2011. A synoptic revision of Carapa (Meliaceae). Harvard papers in Botany. 16: 171—231.