Myristica scripta
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Description
Tree 4-30 m.
Leaves thinly coriaceous (but brittle), ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6-17(-25) by 2.5-6(-9) cm, base short-attenuate or broadly rounded, apex ± blunt or short-acuminate, often with blunt tip;
Inflorescences between the leaves and below, of the Knema-type:
Fruits solitary or 2-5 in a cluster, ovoid, (broadly) ellipsoid, or subglobose, (1.5-) 2-2.5 by 1.5-2 cm, apex rounded or slightly narrowed, sometimes minutely beaked, hairs rusty, mealy, 0.1(-0.2) mm;
Distribution
Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present), W, C, & E New Guinea present
Malesia: Moluccas (Aru Is., type variety);W, C, & E New Guinea. There are two varieties consisting of specimens with conspicuously different fruiting pedicels, but similar in vegetative and flower characters.