Alectryon myrmecophilus
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Description
Tree up to 18 m high, dbh up to 30 cm;
Leaves 2-4-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, a thyrse, up to 25 cm long, widely branched from the base, branches up to 10 cm long, obliquely patent;
Sepals c. 0.8 mm high, somewhat less than halfway connate, inside glabrous or sericeous.
Petals 5 (or absent), unguiculate, the blade kidney-shaped, c. 0.5 by 0.7 mm, outside glabrous, inside woolly.
Stamens:
Fruits with mostly only 1 lobe developed, obovoid-globular, c. 16 by 14 mm, slightly carinate close to the style remnant, otherwise smooth, densely ferrugineous-tomentellous;
Seeds:
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Morobe Prov present, Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Morobe Prov.).
Notes
1. The present species is close to A. fuscus.
The collection Jaheri 445 from the Kai Islands (BO) probably belongs to this species. It differs in the following characters: leaflets widest below the middle, the base slightly oblique, midrib above slightly sunken, nerves c. 0.75 cm apart, the fruit lobes c. 20 by 15 mm, fulvous tomentellous, the wall c. 4 mm thick. Zippelius The collection NGF 5279 lacks petals.
The collection Jaheri 445 from the Kai Islands (BO) probably belongs to this species. It differs in the following characters: leaflets widest below the middle, the base slightly oblique, midrib above slightly sunken, nerves c. 0.75 cm apart, the fruit lobes c. 20 by 15 mm, fulvous tomentellous, the wall c. 4 mm thick. Zippelius The collection NGF 5279 lacks petals.