Prunus dolichobotrys
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Description
Trees up to 30 m, buttresses small or absent, bark brown, lenticelled, peeling off in thin flakes.
Leaves elliptic to ovate, (8-)12-26 by 5-12(-15) cm, base rounded to subcordate, apex rounded to broadly acuminate, herbaceous, with 7-14 pairs of nerves, venation transverse, not conspicuous, both sides entirely glabrous, basal glands 2-4(-6), flat or slightly hollowed.
Stipules linear to linguiform, 5.5-7.5 by 1.5-2.2 mm, keeled inside and often intrapetiolarly connate, glabrous, sometimes ciliolate.
Flowers sometimes functionally male, cream-coloured.
Sepals triangular, 0.8-1.5 mm long, glabrous except sometimes apex and margin.
Petals elliptic to obovate, 1-2 mm long, usually more hairy than sepals.
Stamens 10-30, filaments up to 6 mm, anthers 0.8-1.5 mm long.
Ovary glabrous, style up to 4.5 mm long, pistillodium in male flowers small.
Fruits transversely ellipsoid to didymous, 8-11.5 by 11-15 mm, exocarp glabrous, black when ripe, mesocarp thin, juicy, endocarp glabrous inside.
Seed with glabrous testa.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck Archipelago present); New Guinea present, New Britain present, New Ireland present, Papuan Islands to the East present
Throughout New Guinea, including the Papuan Islands to the East, and also in the Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland).