Description
Leaves with pubescent (or subglabrous) petioles 5-13 cm;
Inflorescences axillary, apparently paniculate, 18-35 cm long with spreading to retrorse lateral branches, the lower ones up to 12 cm, patent-hispidulous to subglabrous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Solomon Is present
Solomon Is.; in Malesia: New Guinea.
Notes
For a full discussion of this species see FORMAN (1984). Some elements must be discarded from the original material; a lectotype was selected; it does not occur in the Aru Is. and in Timor; the bisexual flowers BECCARI mentioned are anomalous in his specimen.
Citation
C.T. WHITE 1929 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 208, 212
RENDLE 1923 – In: J. Bot.: 4
Diels 1910 – In: Pfl. R.: 148
Diels 1910 – In: Pfl. R.: 149
FORMAN 1984: p. 108. – In: Kew Bull.: f. 1J-K.
KANEH. & HATUS. 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 472
