Gonocaryum litorale
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Description
Slender tree, rarely erect shrub, (2-)6-20(-30) m, rather sparsely and ± horizontally branched;
Branchlets slender, practically glabrous as are the leaves.
Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, sometimes elliptic and even oblong, apex shortly acuminate, top blunt, base cuneate to rounded, slightly inequilateral, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, dark green to olivaceous and shining above, paler and ± dull beneath, (10-)12-20(-28) by 6-12(-19) cm, midrib a little depressed above, much prominent beneath, nerves (4-)5-7(-8) rather steeply curved-ascendent pairs, only the upper ones somewhat looping, raised within a depression in dry specimens above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, often obscure in dry specimens, or slightly depressed above, or a little raised on both faces;
Seed pear-shaped or ellipsoid.
Distribution
Am present, Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bismarcks present, Buton I present, Ceram present, Halmahera present, Kai present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Misool present, Morotai present, Mussau I present, New Britain present, Salawati present, Tanimbar Is present, Timor present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Is. (Timor), Celebes incl. Buton I., Moluccas (Morotai, Halmahera, Ambon, Ceram, Kai and Tanimbar Is.), Am, Salawati, Misool, New Guinea&New Britain, and Mussau I. in the Bismarcks.
Uses
Wood hard, heavy, dark cream or yellowish or light orange, with broad rays and an oak-like grain, apparently not used due to the small dimensions.
Citation
VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin.: 247
MIERS 1852 – In: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist.: 36
VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin.: 246
PULLE 1912 – In: Nova Guinea: 659
BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 123
BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 111
SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 166
SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 211
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 227
SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 166
HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg: 4, 51
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 227
WALP. 1851 – In: Ann.: 182
K. SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb.: 415
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 532
DAHL 1952 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 265
HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg: 5, 49
SCHEFF. 1910 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg Suppl.: 857
AMSH. 1948 – In: Back., Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 6: fam. 135, p. 2
PULLE 1912 – In: Nova Guinea: 659
SCHEFF. 1876 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 14
VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin.: 247
HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg: 50
WARB. 1916: p. 349. – In: Pflanzenwelt: f. 231 D, 1-6
HOCHR. 1904: Pl. Bog. Exs.: 43
SCHEFF. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg: 39
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 59
Bl. 1852 – In: Contr. Bot.: 87
WETTSTEIN 1935: Handb. Syst. Bot., ed. 4: 842: fig.
SCHEFF. 1876 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 102
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 394
VALET. 1907 – In: Bull. Dép. Agr. Ind. Néerl.: 30