Sandoricum
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Description
Petals (4) 5, free, imbricate.
Staminal tube margin with 5 or 10 short lobes; anthers glabrous.
Ovary slightly sunken in receptacle, 4- or 5-locular, locules each with 2 colla- teral ovules.
Seeds kidney-shaped, laterally compressed with thin sarcotesta; radicle apical, extending to surface or slightly exserted.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; New Guinea present, western Malesia present
Five species, all but one (S. koetjape) restricted to western Malesia, where the cultivated forms of S. koetjape may have arisen, though wild relations appear to be native as far east as New Guinea. All five are wild in Borneo, to which three species are restricted.