Reinwardtiodendron celebicum

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Reinwardtiodendron celebicum

Description

Tree to 25 m, to 40 cm diam., fluted. Bark smooth to scaling, light brown, thin; inner bark white; sapwood yellow; heart- wood yellow-brown. Leaves unifoliolate, 14–25.5 by 5–8 cm; elliptic or weakly ovate or obovate, subcoriaceous, almost glabrous; apex acuminate; base cuneate; major veins 5–9 on each side, arcuate usually with hollow setose domatia in axils, prominent like midrib abaxially, both sunken adaxially (in sicco); secondary venation reticulate, pro- minulous on both surfaces; petiole 1–4.5 cm, surmounted by swollen petiolule c. 3 mm. Petals c. 3.5 mm long, ovate. Fruit to 3 cm diam., subglobose, den- sely shortly pilose with thin hard pericarp, without sutures, 1-seeded.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), E Borneo present, W New Guinea present
Malesia: E Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, W New Guinea

Citation

Mabb. 1985 – In: Blumea: 145.
Elmer 1937 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3385.
Koord.-Schum. 1914 – In: Syst. Verz.: 63
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 369
Koord. 1918: p. 23. – In: Suppl. Fl. NO. Celebes: t. 8a–b
Merr. 1906 – In: Philipp. J. Sc.: 72
Steenis 1959: p. 210. – In: Nova Guinea, n.s.: t. 2