Galearia aristifera
Description
Shrubs to small trees, up to 5(-12) m, dbh up to 30 cm;
Leaves:
Stipules triangular, 6-15 by 0.5-1 mm, hairy, about halfway;
Inflorescences terminal, up to 100 cm long, pale green to greenish brown, hairy, seldom subglabrous, pistillate flowers single;
Flowers 5-merous;
Fruits flattened ovoid drupes, c. 11 by 8.5 by 6 mm, densely hirsute, wall thin, woody.
Seeds not seen.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Morphology
Very typical for this species are the long bracts in the inflorescences (4 mm and longer). However, on the Malay Peninsula these can be much shorter, c. 2 mm long, and then the species resembles G. fulva. Differences can still be found in the heavier indumentum of G. aristifera (generally far less dense in G. fulva but hairy exceptions occur), the pistillode (long hairs in G. aristifera and generally — not always — short ones in G. fulva) and the stipules ((1.8-)4.5-31 mm long and about halfway usually with tri- angular lateral lobes in G. aristifera, 1-3 mm long and without lateral lobes in G. fulva).
Citation
Forman 1971 – In: Kew Bull.: 159
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1931 – In: Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg: 230
Boerl. 1900 – In: Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 282
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 344
Airy Shaw 1975 – In: Kew Bull.: 220
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1911: p. 102. – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. IV: f. 32
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 345
Miq. 1981 – In: Kew Bull.: 366
Whitmore 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 98