Galearia celebica
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Description
(Shrubs to) small trees, up to 28 m high, bole up to 10 m high;
Leaves:
Stipules triangular, 1.5-2 by 0.5-1 mm, outside subsericeous, inside glabrous, caducous.
Inflorescences cauliflorous and up to 30 together, or terminal and single, up to 75 cm long, damaged cauliflorous ones branching, side branches of racemes up to 100 cm long, subglabrous to hirsute, pistillate flowers single per node;
Flowers 5-merous;
Fruits laterally flattened to triangular to square to ± cylindrical in transverse section, broadest basally or apically, usually angular, 16-30 by 11-30 by 9-18 mm, subglabrous, whitish;wall very thick, 6-8 mm.
Seeds c. 15 by 10 by 2.5 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku absent); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Solomon Islands present
Solomon Islands; in Malesia: Sulawesi, New Guinea (unknown for Moluccas).
Taxonomy
Forman (1960) recognized two varieties, based on the absence or presence of a dense indumentum of long, hirsute hairs. The two varieties are here synonymised, because there is a complete overlap in distribution and the density of the long hairs is rather variable, varying from subglabrous to absent in the inflorescences to present on leaves and inflorescences.
Citation
Koord. 1982 – In: Kew Bull.: 36
Airy Shaw 1980 – In: Kew Bull.: 220
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1911 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. IV: 103
Airy Shaw 1980 – In: Kew Bull.: 220
Forman 1966: 313, 318, 319. – In: Kew Bull.: t. 5: 3, 4
Forman 1971: p. 157. – In: Kew Bull.: f. 1b, 2b1-2
Airy Shaw 1980 – In: Kew Bull.: 220
Forman 1982 – In: Kew Bull.: 36
Forman 1971 – In: Kew Bull.: 158
Boerl. 1900 – In: Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 282
Forman 1960 – In: Kew Bull.: 313
Forman 1971 – In: Kew Bull.: 158