Bayanti (Tag.)

A shrub or a tree Height: Up to 2 - 30 meters tall Leaves: Leaflets (3-)9-11(-15), subopposite, sometimes alternate, with 7-17(-20) pairs of secondary veins, above glossy and often rugulose, sometimes pitted and glabrescent, below sometimes pitted and with few to numerous radiating peltate scales with a dark orange-brown or dark reddish-brown centre and a paler, entire to ragged margin, sometimes interspersed with few darker scales. Flowers: Flowers ca. 2.5 mm in diam. Pedicel 1-3 mm. Calyx short, 5-lobed; lobes ca. 1 mm, lepidote. Petals 5, yellow, ovate, ca. 2.5 mm, quincuncial, free from staminal tube, glabrous. Staminal tube ca. 1.8 mm, rather thick, apical margin inconspicuously toothed; anthers 6, sessile, ca. 0.8 mm, slightly exserted. Ovary 2-locular. Fruits: Fruit indehiscent, ellipsoid, ca. 2 × 1.8 cm, densely ferruginous lepidote. Seed 1 per fruit, with a fleshy yellow aril.