Lepisanthes divaricata
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Description
Small tree, up to 7 m high, or shrub.
Leaves pari- or imparipinnate, (3-)7-ll(-16)-jugate, 25-40 cm long, the axial parts ferrugineous or fulvous short-hairy, glabrescent;
Inflorescences terminal and in the upper leaf-axils, pyramidal, up to more than 40 cm long, glabrous to fulvous short-hairy, repeatedly branched;
Flowers (orange-)yellow.
Sepals sparsely (outer) to densely (inner), partly glan-dular ciliolate, outer two broad-ovate to obovate, 1.8-2.2 by 1.2 mm, inner suborbicular to ovate, 1.8- 3.5 by 1.8-2.2 mm.
Petals distinctly clawed, completely long-hairy, blade transversely semi-el-liptic, 0.7-1.5 by 1.2-2 mm, auricled at base.
Stamens 5-8;
Ovary 2-or 3-celled, glabrous to thinly appressed-hairy;
Fruits slightly 2- or 3-lohed, 2-3 by 2-3 cm, hardly pointed, smooth and;
Seeds obovoid, hilum elliptic, 3 mm long.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Sarawak: near Kucring present
Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak: near Kucring).
Notes
1. The species seems closest to L. amoena.
2. A few specimens are intermediate between the two forms. Native collector 375, the type of Otophora pyramidalis, comes near f. lunduensis but has the ovary 2-celled; Daun (Haviland) 917 and Daun (Haviland) s.n. (herb. SING 23156) look like f. divaricata but have a 3-celled ovary and small pseudo-stipules, whereas Daun (Haviland) s.n., moreover, lacks the terminal leaflet.
The following two forms can be distinguished: forma divaricata and forma lunduensis (Radlk.) Leenh.
2. A few specimens are intermediate between the two forms. Native collector 375, the type of Otophora pyramidalis, comes near f. lunduensis but has the ovary 2-celled; Daun (Haviland) 917 and Daun (Haviland) s.n. (herb. SING 23156) look like f. divaricata but have a 3-celled ovary and small pseudo-stipules, whereas Daun (Haviland) s.n., moreover, lacks the terminal leaflet.
The following two forms can be distinguished: forma divaricata and forma lunduensis (Radlk.) Leenh.