Cariniana parvifolia S. A. Mori, Prance & Menandro

Trees, to 25 m tall, the trunk cylindric, without buttresses. Bark deeply fissured, the inner bark flesh colored (reddish). Leaves: petioles 3-4 mm long, puberulous; blades generally elliptic to narrowly elliptic, rarely narrowly ovate, 2.7-4.5 x 1-1.7 cm, coriaceous, puberulous at base of midrib abaxially, the base obtuse, revolute, the margins serrulate, the apex acute to attenuate; secondary veins in 10-14 pairs. Infloresences terminal or axillary, once-branched paniculate arrangements of spikes, to 9 cm long, the rachieses puberulous. Flowers 5-7 mm diam.; hypanthium puberulous; calyx-lobes 6, ovate to broadly triangular; petals 6, oblong to widely oblong, cream-colored; androecium prolonged on one side to form slightly developed ligule, the stamens ca. 50, a few found in ring around base, the remaining more densely aggregated toward apex of androecium, the anthers wider (ca. 0.4 mm) than long (ca. 0.4 mm); sytle very narrowly obconical, ca. 2.5 long. Fruits cylindrical to narrowly obconical, 4.8-6.5 x 2.2-2.9 cm, the apice truncate, the pericarpa 5-7 mm thick, the operculum with the apex flat, triangular. Seeds unilaterally winged, the seed coat chesnut-colored, the wing ca. 3 mm long.