Vatica glabrata
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Description
Medium-sized tree, to 20 m tall, 1 m girth.
Apical buds and ovary densely ocherous puberulent, young parts sparsely caducously so, otherwise glabrous.
Leaves 6-15(-22) by (2-)2.5-7 cm, lanceolate, coriaceous, +- concave, lustrous, with obtuse base and prominently attenuate to 15 cm long acumen;
Stipules to 12 by 8 mm, elliptic, obtuse, not at first caducous, leaving a more or less prominent falcate scar.
Flowers white, as in other species.
Panicles to 7 cm long, irregular, 1-∞ axillary or terminal.
Fruit unknown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present)
Malesia: Borneo: Sarawak, S 34865, 36852 (holotype in K, in fl.), Dulit range, Ulu Tinjar, Baram; BRUN 2526, 2533, Ulu Medamit, Limbang.
Notes
I collected this species in April 1958 while on an expedition to the Pagon range. Fallen fruit, apparently from this species, were also collected but were lost in a river accident on the return: they were of the Sunaptea type, with two long and three short sepals free to the base. The new collections from Sarawak, and more particularly the type differ in their concave laminae and prominent subamplexicaul subpersistent stipules. The unusually long slender petioles, 9-11 pairs of ascending nerves and glabrous young twigs and inflorescences distinguish the four collections from those of V. mangachapoi Blco which it otherwise resembles and convince me that they represent but a single species.