Prunus mirabilis

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Prunus mirabilis

Description

Trees up to 12 m. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 10-15 by 4-6 cm, base rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate, dark-punctate below, coriaceous; Stipules oblong-ovate, c. 4 by 1.5-2 mm, connate by their excentric keels, almost glabrous. Flowers 5-6-merous. Sepals rounded-triangular, 2-3 by 1.7-2 mm, ciliate. Petals ± orbicular, 6-7.5 by 5-7.5 mm, (almost) glabrous. Stamens c. 40, filaments 6-10 mm, anthers 1 mm long. Ovary glabrous. Fruits ellipsoid, base rounded to tapering, apex acute, 21-29 by 13-16 mm, glabrous, probably red when ripe, end0carp glabrous inside. Seed with glabrous testa.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Sabah present), Mt Kinabalu present
Only known from few specimens collected in different places on Mt Kinabalu, Sabah.

Notes

Resembling the wider-leaved forms of P. javanica, but by its large flowers conspicuously different.