Alectryon reticulatus

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Alectryon reticulatus

Description

Tree to shrubl Twigs angular or terete, 1-2.5 mm thick, subglabrous, glabrescent. Leaves 2- or 3-jugate; Inflorescences axillary, a slender thyrse up to 11 cm long, in fruit still slight-ly hairy; Flowers unknown. Sepals probably 5, fairly highly connate, outside slightly hairy. Fruits subglobular, c. 7.5 mm diam., with a small stylar hook laterally halfway, stigma not lobed;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Islands in the Gulf of Papua and Torres Strait present
Malesia: Islands in the Gulf of Papua and Torres Strait

Notes

Closely allied to A. unilobatus S.T. Reynolds, which is known from a few localities in Queensland only.

Citation

Leenh. 1988: p. 327. – In: Blumea: f. 4
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 993