Schuurmansia

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Schuurmansia

Description

Trees or treelets with stout, often hollow branches. Leaves conferted at intervals (), glandular along the margins, nerves almost straight-ly ascending at an angle of 60-70°. Stipules entire. Inflorescences terminal, many-flowered, panicles often with many hypsophylls at base; Flowers ☿ or polygamous. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white, creamy or purplish. Ovary 3-carpelled; Fruit opening with 3 longitudinal slits, the style usually not splitting. Seeds winged like a propeller with 2 blades.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bismarcks present, Solomons present
Solomons and Bismarcks; in Malesia: Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Moluccas, and New Guinea.

Citation

Blume 1968 – In: Blumea: 74
KANIS 1961 – In: Nova Guinea, Bot.: 63