Gonocaryum melanocarpum
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Description
Tree, 6-8 m, with ± conical crown and short trunk c. 15 cm Ø;
Branchlets brownish, glabrous.
Leaves ovate, shortly subacutely or more bluntly acuminate, base rounded, thin-coriaceous, shining above, greenish-olivaceous when dry, 13-18 by 7-12.5 cm, midrib shallowly depressed above, much prominent beneath, nerves 5-6(-8) curved-ascending pairs, slightly prominent above, more distinctly so beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets dense, finely raised on both faces especially above;
Petals 5, fleshy, green, glabrous outside, papillose inside, 6 mm, connate about halfway to a subcampanulate tube, lobes spreading.
Ovary ovoid, tomentose, 3 mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Hort. Bogor cultivated
Cultivated in Hort. Bogor, but origin not known; apparently from Malesia.