Gluta malayana

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Gluta malayana

Description

Big deciduous tree up to 45 m high, with heavy dome-like crown and steep and rather narrow buttresses. Bark pinkish grey to light greyish fawn, with fine, close, transverse furrows, becoming slightly dippled scaly (CORNER). Leaves coriaceous, obovate-oblong, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 16½-32 by 7-14 cm, pubescent on both surfaces when young, usually glabrescent except especially on the midrib and nerves; Petals imbricate, lanceolate or linear, 3-5 by 1-1½ mm, puberulous outside, papillose and pilose inside; Stamens 5, c. 2¾ mm, filaments hairy; Panicles up to 23½ cm long, appearing before or with the young leaves; Ovary subglobose, ½-¾ mm ø, glabrous;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bengkalis present, Johore present, Karimun present, Pahang present
Malesia: Sumatra (Bengkalis, Karimun) and Malay Peninsula (Pahang, Johore).

Citation

KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 297
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 120