Celtis timorensis
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Description
Medium-sized tree up to 20 m, 30 cm ø.
Bark smooth, grey.
Branchlets glabrous, rather densely lenticellate.
Leaves thin-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, (6-)10-12(-17) by (2½-)4-5(-8) cm, index 1½-2½;
Stipules linear-lanceolate, 5-10 by 1-2 mm.
Inflorescence ♂ or ♂ ⚥, racemose, lax, axes slender, always longer than the petiole, including the bracts sparsely rufous-hairy;
Flowers 5-merous.
Fruit ovoid, terete or 4-angular, beaked, 5-10 by 3-6 mm, glabrous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Bangladesh (Bangladesh present); India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Central Sumatra present, Ceylon present, Christmas I present, Flores present, Luzon present, Mt Kinabalu present, N. Borneo present, Timor present
Ceylon, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Indo-China; in Malesia: Central Sumatra (rare), Java (common; incl. Christmas I.), Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores, Timor), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), Philippines (Luzon).
Citation
Bl. 1856 – In: Mus. Bot.: 71
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 482
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 181
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 180
BRANDIS 1906: Ind. Trees: 596
PRAIN 1903 – In: Beng. Pl.: 719
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 180
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 222
KURZ 1877 – In: For. Fl. Burma: 472
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 221
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 32
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 22
Bl. 1856 – In: Mus. Bot.: 72
PLANCH. 1848 – In: Ann. Sc. Nat.: 315
J. J. SMITH 1910 – In: K. & V., Bijdr. 12: 644
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 180
GAGNEP. 1927 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 682
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 11