Compilation
Markhamia verdickii

Shrub 1.5–3.5 m tall or small tree 5–15(?–20) m tall*, freely regenerating; bark pale brown or grey, smooth or somewhat striated or ridged in larger trees; young branches golden brown velvety tomentose, soon glabrescent. Leaves 18–56 cm long; leaflets (1–)3–5(–6)-jugate, oblong, elliptic, ovate or obovate, (4.5–)6.5–18(–23)≈2.5–9.5(–13.5) cm, cuneate, rounded or subcordate at the base, entire or very slightly serrate, rounded or obtuse to very shortly acuminate at the apex, puberulous or pubescent above, densely woolly velvety beneath; petiole 2–9.5 cm long; petiolules 0–2 mm long; pseudostipules subulate, 0.5–1.3 cm long, tomentose. Flowers in dense tomentose terminal panicles, at first tight clusters ± 8 cm long, later 10–30(–40) cm long; pedicels 1–2.8 cm long, bracts 0.5–1(–1.5) cm long; buds ± uncinate; calyx 1.9–3.3(–4) cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, obtusely cuspidate or uncinate, split to about 4–8 mm from the base, densely golden tomentose. Corolla bright yellow or orange-yellow with maroon guide lines in throat and maroon stripes or spots on 3 lower lobes; tube 3.5–4.5 cm long with lobes 1.5–3 cm long and wide and upper part of tube with conspicuous glands. Capsule nearly straight or curved, (20–)39–87 cm long, 1.4–2.8 cm wide, with prominent longitudinal median ridge on valves and marginal ones near sutures, densely golden velvety tomentose; seeds narrowly oblong, 3–4 cm long, 0.7–1.2 cm wide including the wing. Fig. 8, p. 36.