Barringtonia conoidea
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Description
Small shrubs or trees, 3-15 m tall, often multi-stemmed.
Leaves:
Inflorescences terminal or ramiflorous racemes, pendulous, 5-60 cm long, with up to 12 flowers;
Flowers with pedicels 5-15 mm;
Fruits conoid, 3-5 by 2.5-4.5 cm, distinctly 8-winged, wings 12-17 by 6-13 mm.
Seeds usually 1, rarely 2, ovoid, c. 3 cm long, fissured, pointed at apex.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Myanmar present
Myanmar, in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.
Citation
Kurz 1877 – In: J. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 70
Brandis 1906: Indian Trees, ed. 1: 330
C.B.Clarke 1879 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 508
Payens 1967 – In: Blumea: 189
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 757
Corner 1940: p. 354. – In: Wayside Trees Malaya: f. 122
Griff. 2013: p. 46. – In: Allertonia: f. 9
Hundley & U Chit Ko Ko 1961: List Trees Shrubs Burma, ed. 3: 106
Merr. 1921: Bibliogr. Enum. Born. Pl.: 419
Merr. 1917 – In: J. Malayan Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 204
Prance 2012 – In: Kiew et al., Fl. Penins. Malaysia 3: 187
Griff. 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 497
Nied. 1892 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3: 33
Gagnep. 1921 – In: M.H.Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 2: 854
Griff. 1854 – In: Icon. Pl. Asiat.: f. 1
King 1901 – In: J. Roy. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 136