Rhus taitensis
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Description
Tree up to 30 m high and 70 cm Ø.
Bark grey-brown or brown, smooth to rough, finely superficially fissured.
Leaves imparipinnate, (7-)13-15(-21)-foliolate;
Inflorescences paniculate, terminal, sometimes also with some axillary ones in the leaf axils at the end of twigs, very rarely axillary only, up to 30 cm long, puberulous to tomentose, branches up to 26 cm;
Flowers cream white, rarely pink.
Petals ovate to ovate-oblong, sometimes broad-elliptic, 1¾-2 by 1-1¼ mm, sparsely pilose on the inner surface.
Stamens l-2¾ mm;
Ovary subglobose, c. 1 mm Ø, papillose;
Distribution
Alor present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Besuki present, Bohol I present, Ceram present, East Java present, Flores present, Key Is present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Micronesia present, Minahassa present, Mindanao present, New Britain present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present), Palau present, Polynesia present, Ponape present, Rockingham Bay present, Solomon Is present, Sumba present, Tahiti present, Talaud present, Tanimbar present, Ternate present, Timor present, West Java near Bogor, Wetar present, Yap present
Polynesia (Tahiti, Niue Is., Fiji), Micronesia (Palau, Yap, Ponape), Solomon Is., Australia (Queensland: Rockingham Bay), New Britain to Malesia. In Malesia widely distributed in East Java (Besuki), Lesser Sunda Is. (Flores, Sumba, Alor, Wetar, Timor, Tanimbar), Philippines (Bohol I., Mindanao), Celebes (Minahassa), Moluccas (Talaud, Ternate, Ceram, Key Is.), and New Guinea. .
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. sub III-E-50, VI-B-19, VI-B-76. In West Java near Bogor escaped from the Botanic Garden.
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. sub III-E-50, VI-B-19, VI-B-76. In West Java near Bogor escaped from the Botanic Garden.
Notes
For unknown reasons the name R. retusa ZOLL. remained for a long time a nom. in sched. ENGLER'S acception of it was illegitimate by mentioning the earlier R. rufa in the synonymy.
Otonychium retusum MIQ. was based on an anonymous ♂ flowering specimen from Java, which MIQUEL referred to a Sapindaceous genus. RADLKOFER correctly referred this to Rhus (). A specimen named by MIQUEL could not be traced in BO, L, and U. At Leiden there is one specimen named R. retusa ZOLL. in BLUME'S handwriting to which MIQUEL noted that it did not belong to that order (l.c. Anacardiaceae) with reference to his Fl. Ind. Bat.
Otonychium retusum MIQ. was based on an anonymous ♂ flowering specimen from Java, which MIQUEL referred to a Sapindaceous genus. RADLKOFER correctly referred this to Rhus (). A specimen named by MIQUEL could not be traced in BO, L, and U. At Leiden there is one specimen named R. retusa ZOLL. in BLUME'S handwriting to which MIQUEL noted that it did not belong to that order (l.c. Anacardiaceae) with reference to his Fl. Ind. Bat.
Citation
CHRISTOPHERSEN 1935 – In: Bull. Bish. Mus.: 127
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming.: 105
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 450
KANEH. 1931 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 292
ROYEN 1964: p. 36. – In: Man. For. Trees Papua & N. G.: f. 13
ADELB. 1948 – In: Blumea: 326
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl.: 282
BACK. & BAKH. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 153
LAUT. 1920 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 362
GUILLEMIN 1933: Fl. Micron: 185: f. 76
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 473
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 412
K. & V. 1896 – In: Bijdr.: 119
C.T. WHITE 1929 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 235
GUILLAUMIN 1931 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 242
LANE-POOLE 1925: For. Res.: 107
MERR. & PERRY 1941 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 536
A. GRAY 1886: Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip.: 99
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 674
cf. DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 34
KANEH. & HATUS. 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 169