Rhyticaryum oxycarpum

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Rhyticaryum oxycarpum

Description

Shrub or slender tree, 6-8(-20) m; Branchlets sparsely strigose. Leaves elliptic-oblong, sometimes elliptic, apex rather abruptly acuminate for 1-1.5 cm, tip bluntish, base cuneate, slightly inequilateral, pergamaceous or firmly chartaceous, greenish-brownish when dry, glabrous except some scattered hairs on midrib and nerves underneath, (7.5-)9-15(-20) by 3.5-5.5(-7) cm, nerves 6-8(-10) pairs, patently arcuate and ascending (though sometimes rather straight below), looping, the lowest pair very close to the edge, prominent beneath, reticulation dense, usually finely raised on both faces; Ovary hairy.

Distribution

April and Ramu R. area present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea (April and Ramu R. area).

Citation

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 251
SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 175