Citronella suaveolens
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Description
Tree, (8-)15-36 m, trunk up to ½ m ø, rarely with thin buttresses;
Branchlets smooth or striate, older parts lengthwise set with elongate lenticels.
Leaves elliptic to oblong- or ovate-elliptic, variable in shape and size, apex generally short-acuminate (tip subacute and often plicate then), or obtuse-rounded, base broadly attenuate to rounded, often subequal, coriaceous, shining above, (6-)10-24(30) by (3−)5−13(−17) cm, nerves (4-)5-6 curved-ascendent and anastomosing pairs, lower 1(-2) rather close to the base of the lamina, slightly impressed above, much raised beneath, reticulation fine to rather coarse, a little prominent above, more distinctly so beneath;
Flowers bisexual, fragrant.
Petals elliptic-oblong, white to cream, or sometimes suffused with red, (4-)5(-6) mm at full anthesis, midrib inside raised considerably, sometimes almost wing-like in the lower ½−¾ part.
Panicles terminal, greyish-rusty hirsutu-lous, mostly solitary and spike-like initially, sometimes 2 or 3 forming a ± pyramidal inflorescence, lateral branches of the single panicles of ± the same length (0.5-2 cm), mostly 2-(rarely more-) forked, each branch recurved and bearing several flowers arranged in a cyme.
Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style 1-2 mm, stigma small, a little oblique.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Flores present, Kai Is present, N. & E. Borneo present, NW. Sumatra present, S. Moluccas present, Simalur I present, W. & Central Java present
Malesia: NW. Sumatra (Simalur I.), W. & Central Java, N. & E. Borneo, Celebes, S. Moluccas (Kai Is.), New Guinea, Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores: SCHMUTZ 5819).