Pleiogynium timoriense
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Description
Tree up to 36(-48) m high and 75 cm ø.
Bark dark-grey or grey-brown, flaky, fissured.
Leaves with 3-6 pairs of leaflets, rachis 4-30 cm, petiole 3-12 cm, both puberulous, pubescent or tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, or glabrous.
Inflorescences:
Flowers greenish yellow.
Petals ovate-oblong, 1¾—3 by l-2½ mm.
Stamens 2-3 mm, usually those opposite the calyx lobes longer than those opposite the petals;
Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm ø, glabrous;
Seed ¾-1¼ by ⅓ cm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sabah present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Central Distr present, Flores present, Halmaheira present, Hollandia present, Hort. Bog cultivated, Kendari present, Key present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Luzon present, Madang present, Morobe present, Obi present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present), Pacific Is present, Papua New Guinea present, Port Moresby present, SE. Celebes present, Sepik present, Solomon Is present, Southern America: Argentina South (Santa Cruz present), Sumba present, Tanimbar present, Timor present, Tonga & Cook Is present, Warsamson present, Wetar present
Pacific Is. (Tonga & Cook Is., cf. A.C. SMITH, 1967, p. 77), Solomon Is. (Santa Cruz), Fiji, Australia (Queensland), and Malesia: New Guinea (West: Warsamson&Hollandia; Papua New Guinea: Sepik, Madang, Morobe, Port Moresby, and Central Distr.), Moluccas (Obi, Halmaheira, Key), SE. Celebes (Kendari, 1 coll.), Philippines (Luzon, 1 coll.), Borneo (Sabah, 1 coll.), Lesser Sunda Is. (Timor, Flores, Sumba, Wetar, Tanimbar).
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. under n. III-E-3, 9, 48 and 48a; III-K-21a; XI-B-IV-19.
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. under n. III-E-3, 9, 48 and 48a; III-K-21a; XI-B-IV-19.
Notes
From Queensland I have seen material of this species (O'FARRELL 73, HYLAND 4822, 5644, N. H. SPECK 1687, STORY & YAPP 78). In Australian literature the species was called P. solandri (BENTH.) ENGL. (based on Spondias solandri BENTH. 1863) and more recently P. cerasiferum PARKER, For. Fl. Punjab ed, 2 (1924) 118, 560 (based on Owenia cerasifera F.v.M. 1857, cultivated in India). Australian botanists are of opinion that these refer to one species; if that is true the name adopted here is the correct one.
Citation
LANE-POOLE 1925: For. Res.: 107
PARKER 1924: For. Fl. Punjab, ed. 2: 118
WHITE & FRANCIS 1927 – In: Proc. R. Soc. Queensl.: 237
BAILEY 1913: Compr. Cat. Queensl. Pl.: 124
KRAEMER 1951: Trees W. Pac. Reg: 202: f. 71
BAILEY 1899: p. 324. – In: Queensl. Fl.: t. 12
THIS.-DYER 1885 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 373
Merr. 1909 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 284
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 471
C.T. WHITE 1950 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 95
ROYEN 1964: p. 32. – In: Man. For. Trees Papua & N. G.: f. 12
A.C. SMITH 1967: p. 77. – In: Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb.: in note.