Compilation
Nesogordonia leplaei

Tree, 15–50 m tall; bole straight, narrow, one-half to two-thirds the height of a tree, slightly flaring to sharply buttressed at the base; bark variable in colour from whitish, grey, dark olive, to greyish-brown, fissured and flaking; crown smallish and rounded to pyramidal young branchlets tan to reddish-brown to black, smooth or striate, pubescent with stellate hairs, becoming glabrous in age. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 7–14.5 cm long, 3.2–6.8 cm wide; apex acuminate and mucronate, margin entire to sinuate toward to apex and slightly revolute, base obtuse/rounded or rarely cuneate; glabrous below; glabrous and glossy with a few scattered stellate hairs along the midvein above; below with domatia in vein axils; petiole 1.3–4.2 cm long, finely stellate-pubescent; stipules triangulate, fugaceous. Inflorescences 2–3-flowered corymbs (sometimes appearing 1-flowered by abscission); peduncle and pedicels densely stellate-pubescent; peduncle 2–3.5 cm long; pedicels 0.8–1.5 cm long, articulated 2–3 mm below the flower. Floral buds ovoid, 7–9 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Flowers sweet-scented. Calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate, 8–12 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, densely stellate-pubescent outside. Petals broadly obovate, 9–10 mm long, 6–7 mm wide, white or cream-coloured, glabrous. Stamens in 5 fascicles of 3 each, consisting of 1 external and 2 internal stamens, free portion of filaments ± 0.5–1 mm long, anthers 2.5–5 mm long; staminodes 5, 6–7 mm long, coriaceous. Ovary ± 1 mm long, ± 1 mm in diameter; stigma lobes 1–2 mm long, + sessile. Capsule obconic, costulate toward the base, 3.1–3.5 cm long, 2.3–2.6 cm in diameter, densely covered with minute, golden-brown hairs, carpels flaring at the apex, summit prolonged into an erect horn, and apex deeply concave; inner carpel walls with stellate hairs in the seed cavities; seeds ± 7 mm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, seed wings 12–13 mm long, 6–7 mm wide. Fig. 16.