Planchonia timorensis

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Planchonia timorensis

Description

Trees, up to 35 m high, up to 1 m diam.; Bark greyish brown, scaling off into small pieces. Branchlets terete, lenticellate, smooth, sometimes striate, greyish brown, darker towards the apex, up to 6 mm thick; Leaves: Inflorescences racemes, glabrous, generally many-flowered, up to 12 cm long, glabrous; Petals obovate, 4.5-6 by 2-3 cm, membranaceous, pale green. Stamens: Fruits smooth, subglobular, without basal neck, c. 5.5 cm diam. (fresh), obovoid to ovoid when dry, pericarp fibrous; Seeds numerous, obliquely ovoid, angular;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present, Komodo present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, Timor Leste present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (in particular Sumbawa, Komodo, Sumba and Timor and in Timor Leste).

Notes

This species differs from P. valida in having larger flowers, bigger, subglobular fruits and longer pedicels; from P. papuana by its many-flowered racemes; from P. andamanica (absent in Malesia) by its larger flowers with much larger sepals.

Citation

R.Knuth 1939 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 219: 56
Miq. 1855 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 493
Müll.Berol. 1857 – In: Walp., Ann. Bot. Syst. 4: 853
Kuswata 1965: p. 165. – In: Bull. Bot. Surv. India: f. 2, 3, 3a, 12