Parartocarpus bracteatus
Description
Tree up to 45 m tall, sometimes with buttresses.
Leaves spirally arranged;
stipules 0.5-1 cm long, brownish puberulous, caducous.
flowers numerous; processes aculeate, 2-4 mm long, often ± curved, basally connate in groups of 2-4 or free, subglabrous;
stamens 2, up to 8 mm long, filaments free or connate at the base, anthers 2.5-3 mm long, apiculate.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Peninsular Thailand present, Simalur Island present
Peninsular Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra (also Simalur Island and Banka), Malay Peninsula, Borneo.
Morphology
Two collections from Simalur Island (off Sumatra) match P. bracteatus in the features of the indumentum and the leaves, but the processes of the inflorescences are cushion shaped and resemble those of a form of P. venenosus.
Citation
Kochummen 1978: p. 164. – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: t. 9
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 352
Corner 1976: p. 186. – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 28: t. 2a
Go 2000 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 319
F.M. Jarrett 1960: p. 324. – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 41: t. 21a, d
King 1889 – In: Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta): 7