Description
Small trees, 4-13 m tall.
Leaves:
Inflorescences terminal or ramiflorous racemes, pendulous, 20-90 cm long, sparsely flowered with c. 30 flowers;
Flowers with pedicels 5-20 mm long, sometimes sessile when young;
Fruits oblong, spindle-shaped, tetragonous, truncate, not winged, 4.5-6.5 by 1-1.75 by 0.75-1.25 cm.
Seeds spindle shaped, slightly fissured, 3-3.75 cm by 5-7 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, New Britain present, New Hanover present, New Ireland present, Solomon Is present
Solomon Is.; in Malesia: Moluccas, New Guinea (incl. New Britain, New Hanover, New Ireland).
Citation
Lauterb. & K.Schum. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 462
Payens 1967 – In: Blumea: 236
Peekel 1945: Ill. Fl. Bism. Arch: 1294: f. 1293
R.Knuth 1939: p. 40. – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 219: f. 7
Prance 2013: p. 109. – In: Allertonia: f. 18, 26
Lauterb. 1922: p. 345. – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: f. 2
