Alectryon repandodentatus

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Alectryon repandodentatus

Description

Treelet, up to 10 m high, dbh up to 20 cm, but often much smaller; Leaves 1-3- (or 4-)jugate; Inflorescences axillary, widely branched panicles, 3-10 cm long; Sepals 4, c. 1.5 mm high, somewhat less than half connate, inside sparsely hairy mainly on the lobes. Petals absent. Stamens 6 or 7; Fruits 2-lobed, the lobes globular, 5-7 mm diam., above with a triangular to falcate, up to 7 mm long wing, densely shortly fulvous hairy.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Central Prov., around Port Moresby present, Murray Islands in Torres Strait present, Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Central Prov., around Port Moresby) and the Murray Islands in Torres Strait

Notes

The present species most resembles A. subdentatus (Benth.) Radlk. f. pseudostipularis Radlk. from SE Queensland.

Citation

Radlk. 1985: p. 31. – In: Fl. Austral.: f. 4i-j, map 34
Leenh. 1988: p. 325. – In: Blumea: f. 3
S.T. Reynolds 1982: p. 479. – In: Austrobaileya: f. 37e
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 992