Cathormion umbellatum subsp. moniliforme
Description
Tree 4-22 m high, d.b.h. up to 60 cm, often crooked and multistemmed, flat-topped;
Branchlets terete, striate, brown with lighter coloured, transverse lenticels, puberulous, glabrescent.
Leaves:
Stipules spinescent, inconspicuous, in fertile shoots c. 1 mm.
Flowers bisexual, dimorphic, creamish or white.
Seeds chestnut-brown with a light chestnut areole, elliptic-(ob)ovoid, 11- 15 by 8-12 by 2-2.1 mm;
Distribution
Alor present, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Australasia: Northern Territory (Northern Territory present); Queensland (Queensland present), Banda present, Flores present, Kagean Is present, Komodo present, Krakatau present, Lombok present, Madura present, Saleijer Is present, Sanana present, Seram present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, W Australia present
Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory, W Australia); in Malesia: Sumatra (incl. Krakatau), Java, Madura, Kagean Is., Saleijer Is., Celebes, Moluccas (Sanana, Seram, Banda), Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Komodo, Alor, Flores, Sumba, Sumbawa, Timor), New Guinea. — .
Morphology
Often with spiny coppice-shoots. In young branches the stipules are triangular-acute and rigid, becoming spinescent in old branches. The flowering short-shoots have often leaves with one pair of pinnae, but leaves with two pairs of pinnae can be seen in most collections.
Taxonomy
Verdcourt (I.e.) wondered if more than one taxon was involved because of the very variable indumentum and pod characters. However, as judged from the scarce material, these characters seem to be mutually independent. Here, the subdivision as suggested by Brummitt (I.e.) is followed, although the Australian specimens still may prove to belong to a distinct subspecies.