Barringtonia novae-hiberniae
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Description
Small to large trees.
Leaves:
Inflorescences terminal racemes or borne on trunk well below leaf cluster, pendulous, 11-47 cm long, pulverulent, sparsely grey-puberulous or glabrous, c. 30-flowered.
Flowers sessile or with pedicels 2-10 mm long, in subsp. kassamii borne on raised knobs;
Fruits and seeds only known of subsp. novae-hiberniae, see there.
Distribution
Admiralty Is present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Misima I present, New Britain present, New Ireland present, Santa Cruz Is present, Seram present, Solomon Is present, Vanuatu present
Solomon Is., Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu; in Malesia: Moluccas (Seram), New Guinea (island plus Admiralty Is., Misima I., New Ireland, New Britain).
Citation
Prance 2013: p. 58. – In: Allertonia: f. 11, 12
Payens 1967 – In: Blumea: 204
R.Knuth 1939: p. 37. – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 219: f. 5
Peekel 1945: Ill. Pl. Bism. Arch: 1289: f. 1288
Sykes 1970 – In: Bull. New Zealand Dept. Sci. Industr. Res.: 49
Lauterb. 1922 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 351, 352