Taxonomy
Carapa dinklagei Harms
SUMMARY
Medium sized tree to 25 m tall, up to 50 cm dbh. Bole poorly ramified, with low buttresses; bark brown, with pink slash. Leaves (65–) 80– 130 cm long, petiole 3–12 × 0.7–1.2 cm, base swollen, generally with up to seven nectaries; rachis (65–) 80–120 cm long, dark brown, puberulent; leaflets 10–16 (–19) pairs; petiolule 0.5–1.5 cm long; basal leaflet pairs 4–11 × 2–8 cm; ultimate pairs up to 28–45 × 6–13 cm, glabrous beneath, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, the apex rounded to acute, mucronate, the base cuneate or slightly unequal; midrib prominent beneath, brown-reddish, glabrous above puberulent below, secondary veins 4–17 pairs, tertiary veins dense and impressed. Inflorescence in the axils of fully developped or reduced scalelike leaves, 55–105 cm long, pendulous, main axis bronze-brown or greenish and spotted red, very much–branched, lowermost branches up to 45 cm long, peduncle 10–25 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, distinctly pedicellate, pedicel 2–4.5 mm long, puberulent. Calyx dark purple, glabrous within, tomentose outside, lobes 1–1.4 mm long. Petals 4.5–7 × 2.5–4.5 mm, white with purple tinges, puberulous, each with one gland towards the apex. Staminal tube (3–) 4.5–6 mm long, 10-lobed, lobes 0.5–1 mm long, straight. Anthers 0.7–1 × 0.5–0.6 mm; antherodes 0.5– 0.6 × 0.3–0.4 mm. Disk 1–1.8 mm high, 2–3 mm diameter, red. Ovary 2–2.3 × 1.5–2.3 mm in carpellate flowers; 1–1.7 × 0.7–1.2 mm in staminate flowers; locules 6-ovulate; style 1.2– 1.4 mm long in carpellate flowers, up to 2.3 mm long in staminate flowers; stigma 1.4–1.9 mm in diameter. Fruit ca. 10 × 14 cm, ovoid, purple, valves with median warty excrescences, surface with numerous nectaries. Seeds ca. 3.2 × ca. 3.5 cm, up to 6 per valve; hilum 3 × 2–2.6 mm; testa brown, foveate.
Source: Kenfack D. 2011. A synoptic revision of Carapa (Meliaceae). Harvard papers in Botany. 16: 171—231.