Rhyticaryum lucidum

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Rhyticaryum lucidum

Description

Treelet, 4-5 m, bark greyish. Branchlets laxly or hardly strigose. Leaves elliptic, apex gradually attenuate to a bluntish acumen for 1.5-2 cm, base cuneate, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous, blackish-green above, paler beneath, shining on both faces, 9-15 by 2.7-5.5 cm, nerves 6-7 pairs, curved, distinctly raised beneath, reticulation obscure above;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, E. New Guinea present, Hunstein Mts present
Malesia: E. New Guinea (Hunstein Mts), once found.

Notes

Description a translation of the original Latin diagnosis, as the type specimen is lost.

Citation

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 251