Apodytes dimidiata

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Description

Tree, (10-)15-30 m, bole clear, crown high and lax, trunk (20-)40-70 cm Ø; Branchlets with sparse oblong small lenticels. Leaves oblong- to ovate-elliptic, apex mostly shortly acutely acuminate, rarely obtuse, base often unequal, acute or unilaterally obtuse-rounded, a little decurrent on the petiole, herbaceous to thin-coriaceous, dark green and shining when fresh, brownish-blackish when dry, with fine ± appressed and crisped yellowish hairs on midrib above, petioles and inflorescences, otherwise practically glabrous, entire, (5-)6-13 by (2.5-)3-6 cm, midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 6-10 spreading pairs, a little raised beneath only, the finest veins mostly ending with free ends within the network of finer nerves; Petals oblong, white to yellowish, fragrant, 5-6 mm. Ovary narrow-ovoid, ± densely pubescent;

Distribution

Africa: Angola (Angola present), Annam present, Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present); Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Batjan present, Bukidnon present, Burma present, Ceylon present, Comores present, E. Sumba present, Eastcoast present, Flores present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Madagascar present, Mauritius present, Mindanao present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Sibela present, Mt Trusmadi present, N. Borneo present, Réunion present, S. India present, Tropical and subtropical NE. to S. Africa present, W. Timor present, extreme western part present

Tropical and subtropical NE. to S. Africa&Angola, Madagascar, Comores, Reunion, Mauritius, Ceylon, S. India, Annam, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Hainan, Yunnan; in Malesia: Sumatra (Eastcoast), Malay Peninsula, Java (extreme western part), Lesser Sunda Is. (E. Sumba, Flores, W. Timor), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu, Mt Trusmadi), Philippines (Mindanao: Bukidnon), Moluccas (Batjan: Mt Sibela). .

Uses

The leaves are of a bitter and adstringent taste. Wood light brown or yellowish, used in Indo-China for cabinet work, described by .

Notes

The species is conceived here in a broad sense. The special form occurring in Malesia, described above, is almost matched by forms or varieties found in Africa and Madagascar. Pending a revision of the genus, it seems advisable not to give a proper name on the varietal level to the Malesian specimens.

Citation

ARN. 1970 – In: Fl. Thail.: 81

DAHL 1952: p. 263. – In: J. Arn. Arb.: f. 36 & 36 A

BACK. 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 226

CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 273

SLEUM. 1940 – In: Notizbl. Berl.-Dahl.: 243

Koord. 1913 – In: Atlas: t. 117

Benth. 1841: 680, 683. – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: t. 41, sens. lat.

Merr. 1926 – In: En. Philip.: 249

AMSH. 1948 – In: Back., Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 6: fam. 135, p. 5

KOORD.-SCHUM. 1912 – In: Syst. Verz.: 5

GAGNEP. 1948: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 756

Koord. 1901 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 383

Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 531

BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 61

K. & V. 1900 – In: Bijdr.: 159

GAGNEP. 1911 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 834

HOWARD 1942 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 73

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 185

Merr. 1925 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 136

K. & V. 1910: Jungh. Gedenkb.: 175