越南黄檀 yue nan huang tan

Trees, 5-13 m tall. Leaves 9-20 cm; rachis glabrous; stip­ules caducous, small, tawny puberulent; leaflets (7-)9-11; petio­lules glabrous; blades ovate, 4-9 × (1.8-)3-5 cm, subleathery, sparsely puberulent when young, soon glabrous, base rounded, apex shortly acuminate. Panicles corymbose, axillary, ca. 5 × 3.8 cm. Flowers white, fragrant. Legume distinctly stipitate, ovoid or oblong, 5-7.5 × ca. 2 cm, reticulate opposite seeds, base cuneate, apex subacute. Seeds reniform, compressed, ca. 9 × 5 mm.

Hainan [N Vietnam].

The present authors have seen no material of this species from China.