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Heliocarpus donnell-smithii Rose

Tree; leaves alternate, simple, ovate, base rounded to slightly cordate, margin toothed, apex acuminate venation palmate; flowers in terminal panicles; petals reflexed, pale greenish white; stamens numerous; fruit a woody capsule, the margins fringed with plumose bristles.

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