Planchonia papuana
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Description
Trees, up to 40 m high, with large buttresses, deciduous.
Bark flaky or scaly, deeply grooved, fibrous, hard to cut, red-brown to black;
Branchlets smooth to striate, greyish brown, lenticels scattered, leaf-scars, distinct, leaf-traces sometimes visible.
Leaves:
Inflorescences:
Flowers white, glabrous;
Petals obovate, up to 5.4 by 2.4 cm, green, membranaceous to papyraceous, reflexed, apex obtuse.
Stamens forming tube of 1-1.5 cm long, white;
Fruits obovoid to elongate-obovoid, without basal neck, up to 7 cm (including calyx lobes) by 3 cm, green;
Seeds ovoid, oblique, 3-angular;
Distribution
Aru Islands present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Solomon Islands present
Solomon Islands; in Malesia: Moluccas (Aru Islands), New Guinea.