Prunus grisea
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Description
Trees or shrubs.
Leaves elliptic to oblong, or ovate to lanceolate, 2-20 by 1-9 cm, base rounded or acute, apex various, usually 5-9 pairs of nerves, venation inconspicuous to invisible, sparsely pubescent to glabrous on both sides, basal glands usually 2, flat.
Stipules 1.5-8 by 0.2-1.8 mm, free.
Stamens 15-50, filaments up to 6 mm, anthers 0.2-0.8 mm long.
Ovary usually glabrous, sometimes with some hairs, rarely distinctly hairy, style up to 7 mm long.
Fruits transversely ellipsoid to globular, 6-13 by 7-16 mm, sometimes pointed or beaked and larger (see note under var. tomentosa), exocarp(almost) glabrous, via whitish and red turning purple and finally black, mesocarp thin, endocarp glabrous or sparsely hairy inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Peninsular Burma present
Peninsular Burma, Thailand, Vietnam; throughout Malesia, var. grisea more in the eastern part, var. tomentosa more to the west, var. microphylla endemic to New Guinea.
Citation
Miq. 1913 – In: Adas: pl. 114, 115
Elmer 1913 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 1621
Prance & Whitmore 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 337
Miq. 1855 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 361
Koord. & Valeton 1900: p. 355. – In: Bijdr. Booms. Java: incl. varieties
C. Muell. 1857 – In: Walp., Ann. 4: 642
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 336