Description
Shrub or tree up to 10 m tall, often lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic.
Branchlets drying pale brown to greyish.
internal hairs absent.
Leaves distichous;
stipules amplexicaul, 0.4-0.8 cm long, glabrous, caducous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present
Taxonomy
This species resembles the allopathic F. microsphaera, from which it can be distinguished by the exfoliation of the epidermis of the petiole, the (sub)reticulate tertiary venation, and the smooth leafy twigs.
Citation
Kochummen 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 299
Corner 1965: – Gard. Bull. Singapore 21: 79
