Guioa acuminata
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Description
Tree, 6-8 m high, dbh up to 12.5 cm.
Branchlets sericeous when young;
Leaves 1-3-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, branching basally to mainly along the sericeous, flattened, 2.8-16.5 cm long axis;
Flowers 4-4.3 mm in diam., white.
Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, out- and inside glabrous;
Petals 5, obovate, 3.3-3.7 by 1.2-1.3 mm, blade elliptic, gradually de-current into the 0.4-0.8 mm long claw, margin pilose, out- and inside glabrous, apex obtuse;
Stamens 8;
Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, c. 1.3 by 1.5 cm, completely dehiscent, rugose-ru-minate, glabrous, blackish when dry;
Seeds seen immature;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Central & E Luzon present, Polillo I present
Malesia: Philippines (Central & E Luzon, Polillo I.).