Aistopetalum viticoides
Description
Trees up to 40 m tall, bole 20 m by 60 cm diameter, with or without buttresses.
Leaves with petiole (1-)1.5-4(-7) cm, in-ternodes of rachis 1-3 cm, terete, channelled above, minutely strigose-puberulous.
Stipules ovate-oblong, up to 7 by 3 mm, densely minutely puberulous beneath.
Inflorescences of c. 25-100 flowers, up to 16 by 8 cm, subunits usually in opposite axils of most distal pair of leaves or in subdistal axils;
Flowers with pedicel up to 2.5 mm long and from 0.7 mm thick merging into receptacle to 1.8 mm in diameter.
Sepals ovate to lanceolate, 2.7-3.6 by 1.2-2.6 mm, glabrous to shortly strigose or strigose-hirsute beneath, ± densely shortly strigose above.
Stamens with filaments 1.4-2.2 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide at base, anthers cordate, obtuse or submucronate at apex, retuse at base, 0.6-0.8 by 0.6-0.7 by 0.3-0.4 mm.
Ovary 0.7-1.2 by 1-1.5 mm, glabrous except for row of hairs along outside centre of each cell;
Fruit ovoid to globular, up to 20 by 13-20 mm, glabrous, the styles slightly prominent around central-apical depression; in transverse section, fleshy layer c. 1-2 mm thick when dried, locules (4-)5-7 in a ring towards centre, each containing a single seed.
Seeds oblong, c. 6 by 1.5 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, from Vogelkop to central and southern Papua New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea, fairly widespread from Vogelkop to central and southern Papua New Guinea (absent from the tail).