Compilation
Combretum antunesii

Small to medium-sized deciduous tree up to 10(12) m. high or rarely a shrub; crown rounded or flat-rounded; bark brown or grey-brown, smooth to scaly, generally fissured; branchlets usually tomentose. Leaves opposite or 3 -verticillate; lamina up to 14(22) x 9(11) cm., chartaceous, broadly to narrowly elliptic or obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, usually tomentose (when young) or pubescent to almost glabrous (except for scales), lepidote but scales rather inconspicuous, apex usually rounded to obtuse, sometimes acute, base usually rounded, sometimes slightly cordate; lateral nerves 5–12 pairs, prominent below; petiole up to 1 cm. long. Inflorescences usually unbranched axillary spikes up to 8 cm. long including the rather short tomentose peduncle; rhachis tomentose; bracts c. 2 mm. long, caducous. Flowers sessile, yellowish. Lower receptacle 2–3 mm. long, tomentose; upper receptacle c. 3 x 2·5–3 mm., shortly infundibuliform, pubescent and lepidote. Sepals 1·5–2 x 1·5–2 mm., triangular. Petals yellow, 1·5–2·5 x 0·8–1·2 mm., obovate-spathulate to spathulate, glabrous. Stamen-filaments 5–8 mm. long, often reflexed at about 1 mm, below the anthers; anthers orange, 1·5 mm. long. Disk 1·8 mm. in diam. with pilose margin free for 1·5–2 mm. Style c. 5 mm. long, glabrous, with swollen apex (while functional), usually exserted and rather conspicuous before the stamens appear. Fruit usually c. 5·5 x 5 cm. (rarely only 3–3·5 x 3–3·5 cm. and occasionally up to 10 x 8 cm.), subcircular in outline, usually glabrescent, sometimes conspicuously lepidote on the body, apical peg very short or absent, wings up to 3·5 cm. broad, stipe 1–3 cm. long, usually relatively slender. Cotyledons 3·5–4 x 6 cm., subcircular to transversely elliptic, with free petioles sometimes c. 2 mm. long (petioles united for the rest of their length) or the two cotyledons united completely to form a single peltate organ c. 6 cm. in diam., arising as for the section. Scales as for the section.