Streblus taxoides

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Description

Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall, much-branched, with thorns up to 1.5 cm long, mostly terminating (short) leafy twigs, dioecious; Leaves distichous; stipules 0.2-0.5 cm long, ciliolate, subpersistent. flowers 8-14, (sub)sessile (or up to 1 mm long pedicellate); stamens 2-2.5 mm long, anthers 0.6-0.8 mm long; ovary c. 1.5 mm long, style c. 1 mm long, stigmas 0.5-3 mm long;

Distribution

Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: East Himalaya (Bhutan present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present); Thailand (Thailand present), Flores present, Mindoro present, Myanmar present, Palawan present, South China present, Timor present, south-eastern present

Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, South China (Hainan), Thailand, Indochina; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Java, Philippines (Mindoro, Palawan), Celebes (south-eastern) , Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Timor).

Morphology

4Streblus zeylanicus is included as differentiating characters are absent. 3In Thailand the tepals of the pistillate flowers are sometimes narrowly ovate. 2Staminate inflorescences are or can be subinvolucrate, due to enlargement of the bracts, at least in Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand. In the Malesian region the bracts are (always?) small. 1This species can be easily confused with S. spinosus. In S. taxoides, the thorns are normally borne at the end of leafy twigs, the acumen of the lamina has an acute apex, the stipules do not form an aculeate terminal bud and are subpersistent. In the other species the thorns are borne laterally on twigs, the acumen of the lamina is normally 2-lobed with a small tooth in between these lobes, the stipules form an aculeate terminal bud and are caducous.

Citation

Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 1720

Kurz 1877: p. 464. – In: Forest Fl. Burma: in clavi.

Kurz 1977: p. 160. – In: Fl. Ceylon: t. 30

Corner 1940: Wayside Trees Malaya, ed. 1: 690

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 16

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 279

Thwaites 1852 – In: Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.: 1

Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 322

Koord. 1924: Atlas Baumart. Java: t. 748

Corner 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: 225

Kurz 1977: p. 158. – In: Fl. Ceylon: t. 29

Koord. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 38

Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 323

Corner 1975: p. 3. – In: Phytomorphology: t. 1C, 2, 3A

Merr. 1920 – In: Philipp. J. Sci.: 247

Corner 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: 229

Span. 1841 – In: Linnaea: 344

Kurz 1975: p. 5. – In: Phytomorphology: t. 1A

Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 488

Koord. & Valeton 1906 – In: Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java: 10