Description
Tree up to 15 m high.
Branchlets and stipules not known.
Leaves:
Inflorescences cauliflorous and ramiflorous, glabrous, consisting of once-branched racemes, 8-14 cm, pedicels 2-9 mm;
Flowers tri- to pentamerous, male and bisexual.
Stamens up to 65 mm;
Ovary solitary, glabrous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Madang present, Papua New Guinea present, West Sepik present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Madang&West Sepik Provinces).
Notes
Only known from 2 collections (Nielsen, l.с.). The characters suggest affinities to ser. Stipu- latae and ser. Archidendron. It is tentatively placed here because of leaf and inflorescence morphology.
Probably 'sp. S' of Verdcourt (I.с.: 264) belongs here too (Nielsen, l.с.).
Citation
Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Legum.: 238
Nielsen 1984: p. 93. – In: Opera Bot.: f. 63, 64
De Wit 1942: p. 266. – In: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg: sub A. pachycarpum
Mohlenbr. 1966: p. 721. – In: Webbia: sub spec, excl.
