Prunus dementis
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Description
Trees up to 30 m, bark grey, rough (only one note).
Leaves oblong, 10-22 by 3.5-9 cm, base rounded, apex gradually tapering to acuminate, herbaceous, with 9-15 pairs of nerves, venation usually not conspicuous, both surfaces hairy when young, (almost) glabrous when mature, basal glands 2-4, distinctly hollowed to flat.
Stipules ovate to narrowly triangular, 5-7.5 by 2-4.5 mm, intrapetiolarly connate by their keeled midribs, with inconspicuous marginal glands.
Stamens 20-40, filaments up to 4.5 mm, hairy at base, anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long.
Ovary densely to more sparsely hairy, style up to 4.5 mm long.
Fruits compressed subglobular to transversely ellipsoid, 13-14 by 14-17(-20) mm, exocarp more or less hairy to glabrous, dark red (information scarce), endocarp glabrous inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Mindanao present, N peninsula and central part present
Mindanao, Celebes (N peninsula and central part).
Uses
Used as medicine for headache and skin eruptions (Frake PNH 36173, probably referring to the bark).