Guioa bicolor

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Guioa bicolor

Description

Tree, 1-15 m high, dbh at least 4 cm; Branchlets sericeous when young, hairs brownish; Leaves 2-5-jugate; Inflorescences axillary, inbranched to branching basally and along the flatened, subsericeous, glabrescent, 1.9-14.4 cm long Axis; Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside t[sub)glabrous, pink; Petals 5, elliptic, 2.8-.3.2 by c. 1 mm, pinkish outside, white inside; Stamens 8; Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, c. 1.5 by 1.5-2.1 cm, smooth, glabrous, blackish when dry; Seeds obovoid, c. 9 by 5 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Luzon present, Mindanao present, Sabtang I present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Sabtang I.).

Citation

Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1170
Welzen 1989: p. 181. – In: Leiden Bot. Series: f. 67
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp Flow Pl.: 507