Prunus wallaceana
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Description
Trees up to 30 m, rarely buttressed, bark smooth, grey to darkbrown, with lenticels.
Leaves elliptic to oblong, sometimes ovatish, 10-18 by 4-8 cm, base usually rounded, rarely more acute, apex gradually tapering to shortly acuminate, herbaceous, with 8-14 pairs of nerves, venation widely transverse, not conspicuous, usually glabrous, rarely with some pubescence, basal glands (0-)2, flat.
Stipules oblong, 3-9 by 0.8-2.3 mm, free, sometimes slightly keeled inside, sometimes with marginal glands.
Sepals triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, hairy outside.
Petals obovate, 1.5-3 mm long, hairy outside, white.
Stamens 35-55, filaments up to 4.5 mm, glabrous or hairy at base, anthers 0.3-0.7 mm long.
Ovary glabrous, style up to 6 mm long.
Fruits transversely ellipsoid, 10-13 by 13-18 mm, exocarp glabrous, red when ripe (or ultimately becoming black?), endocarp glabrous inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Ceram present, Flores present, S peninsula present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Talaud I present, Temate present
Celebes (S peninsula, Talaud I.), Lesser Sunda Islands (seen from Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores), Moluccas (seen from Temate, Ceram).