Reinwardtiodendron kinabaluense

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Reinwardtiodendron kinabaluense

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Description

Tree to 20 m, to 25 cm diam. and clear buttressed bole to 15 m. Bark smooth; inner bark yellow to white; sapwood yellow. Leaves to 27 cm; petiole 4–5 cm, sparsely pubescent to glabrous. Petals 4–5 mm long, ovate. Fruits to 5 cm long, depressed-globose when young, obovoid with apical depression and 5 ribs when mature, sericeous, yellow.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, northern Borneo present
W Malesia: northern Borneo

Taxonomy

This species is remarkably similar in overall fades to Aglaia oligophylla Miq. though the leaflets are larger in that species and the indumentum of stellate hairs, best seen in the fruit, distinguishes it at once. Furthermore, domatia are absent.