Galearia
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Description
Shrubs to small (or big in G. maingayi) trees, dioecious, bole sometimes fluted or with buttresses;
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous;
Stipules triangular, often thick, hairy outside, glabrous inside (except G. aristifera), entire or with side-lobes in G. aristifera, caducous to late caducous.
Inflorescences terminal (to cauliflorous in G. celebica), single, rarely several together when subterminal to many when cauliflorous;
Flowers (4- or) 5-merous;
Fruits laterally flattened to ovoid to subglobular drupes, often ridged or angular, 4- or 5-cornered, hairy, glabrescent, wall fleshy or bony, either thin and entire or thick with cavities, woody when dry;
Seeds flattened, triangular, ecarunculate.
Distribution
Asia present, Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. absent; Maluku (Maluku absent), Solomon Islands present, from Burma, Thailand and Vietnam throughout Malesia present
An Asian genus of five species, ranging from Burma, Thailand and Vietnam throughout Malesia (unknown from the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Moluccas) to the Solomon Islands.
Taxonomy
Webster (1994) proposed Galearia sessilis Zoll. & Moritzi as lectotype, becauce G. pedicellata (synonym of G. filiformis, lectotype by Forman 1960) can be confused with Bennettia pedicellata R.Br., another synonym of G. filiformis. However, this is against the code and thus the lectotype remains G. pedicellata (see also McNeill et al. 2006, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Vienna Code).
Citation
Zoll. & Moritzi 1981 – In: Kew Bull.: 365
Gagnep. 1926 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 456
Benth. 1880 – In: Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3: 287
Whitmore 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 97
Airy Shaw 1972 – In: Kew Bull.: 362
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 407
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1931 – In: Engl. & Harms, Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19c: 171
Pooma 2007 – In: Welzen & Chayam., Fl. Thailand 8: 306
Forman 1960 – In: Kew Bull.: 311
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 429
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1911 – In: Engl., Pflanzenfam. IV: 97
Pax 1890 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Planzenfam. 3: 81
Forman 1966 – In: Kew Bull.: 318
Forman 1971 – In: Kew Bull.: 155
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 254
Fl. Ned. Ind. 1860: Eerste Bijv.: 469
Airy Shaw 1975: Kew Bull.: 220
Backer & Bakh.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 495
Zoll. & Moritzi 1982 – In: Kew Bull.: 36
Müll.Arg. 1866 – In: DC., Prodr. 15: 1036
Hook.f. 1887 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 377
Backer & Bakh.f. 1968 – In: Fl. Java: 649
Baill. 1858: Étude Gén. Euphorb.: 311
Meijer 1968 – In: Bot. Bull. Herb. Forest Dept. Sabah: 234
Forman 1966 – In: Kew Bull.: 309
1980: 8: 220
Radcl.-Sm. 2001: Gen. Euphorbiacearum: 127
G.L.Webster 1994 – In: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.: 68