Alanki (Ilk)

A tree Height: Reaching a height of more than 30 meters. Leaves: Leaves 0-6-jugate. Leaflets very variable, ovate to elliptic, rarely obovate or lanceolate, 4-30 by 2-10 centimeters, generally rather rigid, chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous or more or less pilose on the midrib above and on all nerves beneath; base rounded to cuneate, slightly oblique; margin entire, in young plants often serrulate to dentate and with tufts of hair on the teeth; apex mostly more or less abruptly, up to c. 2 centimeters long, tapering to narrowly, acutely to bluntly acuminate; nerves rather prominent beneath, (7-)12-15(-20) pairs (angle 50-80 degrees), straight to slightly curved, sometimes abruptly arching close to the margin. Flowers: Inflorescences axillary, spicate to subracemose, male ones sometimes narrowly paniculate, these up to c. 40 cm long, female ones 1-20(-32) centimeters, mostly slender and flexible, pendulous to ascending, sometimes rigid and erect; more or less hirsutely pubescent to glabrous. Flowers 3-7 millimeters long, female ones very rarely with a slightly concave receptacle. Calyx 1.5-5 millimeters high. Stamens glabrous, 1.5-5 millimeters long, free, rarely slightly connate at the base or adnate to the disk. Disk pilose, in the female flowers 3- or 6-lobed to subtruncate, c. 1 millimeters high; in the male flowers cup-shaped with sometimes a small ovarial rudiment, to subglobose, with or without a central canal, more or less 6-lobed, up to 1.5 millimeters high. Fruits: Fruits ovoid to subglobose, subacute, round or slightly trigonous in cross-section, 9-14 by 4¡ª11 millimeters, glabrous; pyrene smooth to slightly rugose, rarely very faintly 6-ribbed; lids c. 2 millimeters thick.