Guioa scalariformis
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Description
Shrub to tree, 3-10 m high, dbh up to 15 cm.
Branchlets sericeous when young;
Leaves 1- or 2-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, branching along the flattened to terete, sericeous, glabrescent, 6.1-13.5 cm long axis;
Flowers c. 4 mm in diam.
Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous, greenish white;
Petals 5, obovate, 2.8-3 by 1.7-2 mm, white;
Stamens 8:
Fruits with 2 or 3 well developed lobes, c. 1.8 by 2.3-2.9 cm, slightly ribbed, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry;
Seeds globose, c. 11.2 by 9.8 mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Morobe Province present, Papua New Guinea present, near Wagau present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Morobe Province: near Wagau).