Archidendron palauense
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Description
Unbuttressed tree to 26 m high;
Branchlets terete, greyish to brownish with pale lenticels, glabrous or very scarcely puberulous.
Leaves:
Inflorescences terminal or axillary at the distal leaves, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs only, consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into panicles to 40 by 50 cm;
Flowers pentamerous, bisexual.
Stamens white, 8 mm long, tube exceeding the corolla-tube.
Ovary solitary, glabrous.
Seeds purplish black, ellipsoid, up to 16 by 12 by 10 mm, slightly flattened.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present), Carolines present, New Britain present, Solomon Islands present, Sula Islands present, Timor present, W Irian present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor), Moluccas, Sula Islands, W Irian, New Britain; Solomon Islands&Carolines.