Nephelium lappaceum
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Description
Tree or sometimes shrub.
Leaves 1-foliolate to 6-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, together pseudoterminal, sometimes truly terminal.
Sepals nearly free to more than halfway connate, 0.7-2.1 mm long.
Petals mostly absent, sometimes up to 4, reduced, claw 1.1 mm long, blade 0.5 by 0.5 mm, margin infolded and connate towards the base, outside glabrous or with a few long hairs, margin long ciliate, inside woolly.
Stamens (4-)5-8(-9).
Ovary 2- (or 3-)celled.
Fruits hardly stalked, ellipsoid to subglobular, up to 6 by 3.5 cm, glabrous, rather thinly to mostly densely set with bulbous- or broad-based, tapering to strap-shaped or filiform, ± curved, 0.5-2 cm long appendages;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present); Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Yunnan, Hainan, Indo-China, and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippines, and Celebes.
Notes
The only 'good' difference between N. lappaceum and N. ramboutan-ake is in the fruit appendages. In the former they have a small and inconspicuous basal part and a long, filiform upper part, whereas in the latter the basal part is relatively large, triangular to ovate in shape, and tapering into a short and broad, often thick and stiff apical part.
Citation
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