Walsura pinnata
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Description
Trees, up to 18(–37) m, girth to 0.76(–1.22) m, bole to 11 (–24) m; outer bark smooth and thin, light grey-brown, often with lenticels, falling in parts to reveal pink- brown inner bark; sapwood very pink to pale brown to pink-yellow, with slight aroma similar to that of the fruits.
Leaves (9, if leaf undivided, to) 14–70 cm long, undivided to 2- (or 3-)jugate; petiole 2.5–11 cm long, 1–4 mm thick, semi-terete and flattened adaxially, glabrous or extremely sparsely pubescent, occasionally lenticellate near the base; petiolules semi-terete and flattened adaxially, those of lateral leaflets 0.4–1.4 cm long and 0.5–1.5 mm thick, geniculate just below base of lamina.
Inflorescences clustered around shoot apex in axils of caducous, undeveloped leaves and/or rarely solitary in axils of expanded leaves near the shoot apex, (4–)8–35 cm long at anthesis, an open thyrse, branched up to third order (excluding pedicels), first order branches up to 10 cm long, all parts densely puberulous, rachis occasionally lenticellate; pedicel 0.5–2 mm long.
Flowers hermaphrodite or male only, just prior to opening ± cylindrical, 2–4 mm long, 2–2.8 mm diam., at maximum opening 3.5–5 mm diam.
Petals 3–3.8(–4) by 1.5– 1.8(–1.9) mm, imbricate, apex sometimes slightly hooded when mature.
Ovary densely hairy or very rarely glabrous.
Fruit a 1– (or 2–)seeded berry, globose (to ovoid), 1.2–2.4(–2.8) cm long, 1.2– 2.4 cm diam., pale green or red in vivo, brown in sicco, sparsely and minutely puberulous, pericarp thin but coriaceous with very thin fibrous endocarp.
Seeds ± ellipsoidal, 1.3–42.3 by 0.9–1.3 cm or (in 2-seeded fruit) hemi-ellipsoidal and up to 2.1 cm long, enveloped in a fleshy white or colourless sweet tasting aril which sometimes exudes a clear sticky liquid.
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present); Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Cambodia (Cambodia present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Burma present, Halmahera present, Palawan to Luzon present, cult.: Bogor present, extreme western Irian Jaya present
Burma, Thailand, Yunnan, Hainan, Cambodia, Vietnam; MalesiaMalay Peninsula, Java (cult.: Bogor), Borneo, Philippines (Palawan to Luzon), Halmahera, extreme western Irian Jaya
Citation
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