Celtis philippensis
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Description
Small to large tree, up to 30 m, 80 cm ø.
Bark smooth to finely fissured, pale grey to grey-brown.
Leaves thick-coriaceous, glabrous, full grey when dried, elliptic-oblong to suborbicular, (4-)8-14(-18) by (2-) 3-6(-8)cm, index (l½-)2-3;
Stipules ovate-acute, 6-10 by 2-4 mm, thick, peltately attached, overlapping and enclosing the bud.
Inflorescences ♂ or ♂ ⚥, much-branched panicles, many-flowered, including the bracts densely yellow-brown to rufous soft-hairy;
Fruit ovoid, glabrous, 8-15 by 7-12 mm, beaked when young;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Hongkong present, Indian Ocean present, Madagascar present, Mauritius present, NE. Australia present, SE. China present, Solomons present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa to Madagascar, Indian Ocean (Reunion, Mauritius, etc.), India, Burma, ? SE. China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Indo-China, Thailand, throughout Malesia to NE. Australia and the Solomons.
Taxonomy
A rather variable, widely spread species with two rather but not completely distinct varieties. These are:
Citation
BLANCO 1952 – In: Fl. Madag. Fam.: 3
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 11
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 483
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 184
BLANCO 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 32
VIDAL 1886: Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip.: 248
POLHILL 1964 – In: Kew Bull.: 141
BLANCO 1873 – In: Bra. Fl. Austr.: 156
WIGHT 1853: IC. Pl.: 1.1969
PLANCH. 1848 – In: Ann. Sc. Nat.: 306
TEYSM. & BINN. 1855 – In: Ned. Kruidk. Arch.: 392
SOEPADMO 1973 – In: Whitmore, Tree Fl.Mal. 2: 416
BRANDIS 1906: Ind. Trees: 594
BLANCO 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 122
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 220
BLANCO 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 184
Merr. 1906 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Suppl. 42
WARB. 1891 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 287
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 184
J. J. SMITH 1910 – In: K. & V., Bijdr. 12: 647
LEROY 1948 – In: Bull. I.F.A.N.: 212
LAUT. 1900 – In: K.SCH. & LAUT., Fl. Schutzgeb.: 264
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 185
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 322
GAGNEP. 1927 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 683