Guioa aryterifolia
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Description
Shrub to tree, 5-20 m high, dbh up to 45 cm;
Branchlets usually sericeous when young;
Leaves 2-4-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary to ramiflorous, unbranched to branching basally and especially along the terete, sericeous, glabrescent, 3-13 cm long axis;
Flowers c. 3.2 mm in diam., sweet, faintly fragrant.
Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, (outside sparsely pilose), inside glabrous;
Petals 5, obovate, 1.8-1.9 by 0.6-0.9 mm, white;
Stamens 8;
Fruits with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1.3-1.6 by 1.6-3.3 cm, rough to slightly rugose or ribbed, glabrous, black when dry;
Seeds globose to obovoid, c. 10 by 7 mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Central Prov present, Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Central Prov.).