Galearia filiformis
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Description
Shrubs to small trees, up to 10 m high, bole up to 3 m high, dbh up to 15 cm;
Leaves:
Stipules triangular, 0.8-2 by 0.3-0.6 mm, outside hairy, inside glabrous, usually late caducous.
Inflorescences terminal (or subterminal when several, probably due to sympodial length growth), up to 52 cm long, green, hairy, pistillate flowers single;
Flowers 5-merous, green to white;
Fruits laterally flattened ovoid drupes, often with 2 ridges along edges, 9-9.5 by 6.2-7.2 by 5.5-7.1 mm, somewhat hairy, wall thin, woody, c. 0.4 mm thick, very light green to pale whitish green when immature.
Seeds seen immature, c. 8.5 by 5.5 by 1 mm.
Taxonomy
2 The combination G. filiformis was first published by Pax (1890) but with as authors (Blume) Benth. References to the basionym and the other combinations are missing, thus this new combination was not published validly. The first to make a valid new combination is Boerlage (1900).
1 This species is easy to separate from G. fulva when flowering and the petals are still present (usually early caducous in pistillate flowers): G. filiformis has glabrous petals as deep as high and a glabrous pistillode, while G. fulva has petals with apical hairs, higher than deep and a hairy pistillode. When fruits or pistillate flowers lacking petals are present then the calyx in G. filiformis is glabrous inside, hairy in G. fulva. Other, overlapping differences are the generally light green colour of dried leaves of G. filiformis vs light green to brownish in G. fulva and the pedicels of the fruits, up to 4 mm in G. filiformis and up to 12 mm in G. fulva. Geographically the species only overlap on Sumatra.
Citation
Forman 1971: p. 160. – In: Kew Bull.: f. 1d, 2c
Backer & Bakh.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 495
Pax & K.Hoffm. 1911: p. 98. – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. IV: f. 34
Airy Shaw 1981 – In: Kew Bull.: 366
Müll.Arg. 1866 – In: DC., Prodr. 15: 1038
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 429
J.J.Sm. 1910 – In: Meded. Dept. Landb. Ned.-Indië: 550