Gonocaryum macrophyllum
Content
Description
Treelet or shrub, 2-6(-10) m;
Branchlets slender, glabrous.
Leaves elliptic to subobovate-elliptic, apex rather abruptly short-acuminate (1 cm), tip obtuse, base broadly cuneate, slightly inequilateral, coriaceous, ± dull on both faces in dry specimens, glabrous, 15-20(-25) by (5-)6-10(-14) cm, midrib slightly impressed above, strongly raised beneath, nerves 5-6(-7) pairs curved-ascendent, the upper ones more distinctly looped, shallowly or not sunken above, prominent beneath, reticulation of veins and veinlets finely or hardly prominent above, hardly so beneath, or obscure on both faces;
Inflorescences in foliate or defoliate axils;
Petals united in their lower ¾ part to a distally slightly enlarged tube, c. 5 mm including the erect free part, fleshy, white or greenish.
Ovary ovoid, glabrous, style thick, 1 mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Banka present, Berhala and Jarak islets present, Eastcoast present, Lepar I present, Malacca Straits present, Mentawei Is present, Siberut present
Malesia: Sumatra (Eastcoast), Mentawei Is. (Siberut), Berhala and Jarak islets in Malacca Straits, Banka (also on Lepar I.), Borneo.