Compilation
Phialodiscus laurentii

Dioecious tree 20–25(–35) m. tall, with grey bark showing small reticulate fissures or thin, smooth, hard and flaking; slash orange and yellow-brown mottled with scattered white pock marks; young twigs orange-pubescent but soon glabrescent and dark brown. Petiole up to 16 cm. long, flattened, narrowly winged; rhachis 4–15 cm. long; leaflets olive-green, in 2–4 pairs, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, the uppermost 8–40 cm. long, 3.5–10 cm. wide, with lower pairs becoming smaller with lowermost as little as half the size, shortly and bluntly acuminate at the apex, sometimes asymmetric at the base, glabrous apart from scattered hairs on the undersides of the veins; midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; lateral nerves in 7–10(–20) pairs, curving and sometimes joining inside the margin. Inflorescence-axis 3–10 cm. long; flowers in small groups or single; pedicels 5–8(–10 in fruit) mm. long. Sepals joined for 1/4 of their length, lobes 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; petals rhomboid, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, the scale equal to and joined to it to form a funnel-shaped compound petal. Stamens 7–8; filaments hairy in the lower part.Ovary 3-lobed; style entire, equalling the ovary. Capsule reddish or bright red, turbinate, 3–4-angled and -locular, up to 5.5–6(–8) cm. long, glabrous; endocarp creamy-velvety-pubescent. Seeds black or dark brown, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide; aril up to 2 cm. long.