Pteleocarpa lamponga
Placement status: name or taxon excluded (unspecific)
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Description
Tree, up to 30 m high.
Bark superficially fissured, yellowish to greenish grey, inner bark pale brown to pale orange, wood pale yellowish to reddish brown; branches reddish brown, youngest, herbaceous shoots minutely papillose.
Leaves obovate, obovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, petiole 0.7-1 cm long, blade 2.5-10 by 1.2-6 cm, margin entire, base gradually tapering into petiole, apex usually long acuminate, rarely subobtuse to emarginate, 5 or 6 primary nerves on each side of midrib (following the pattern of Ehretia), glabrous on upper and lower side.
Inflorescences terminal, paniculate to thyrsoid-paniculate, with short peduncle, rhachis densely pubescent, flowers numerous; pedicels 2-8 mm long, densely pubescent.
Stamens inserted at upper end of tube, filaments filiform, about thrice as long as anthers, anthers basifixed, linear, bilobed at base, dehiscent longitudinally, obtuse.
Fruit single, broadly winged, wing suborbicular to obovate in outline, 3-4.5 cm in diam., fertile locules 2, oblong, 1.3-2 cm long, laterally compressed, wing densely radially veined, slightly emarginate to deeply bifid at apex, continuous also below locules; only the big, pendulous ovule developing into a seed.