Lepisanthes ramiflora
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Description
Small tree up to 22.5 m high and 2 cm in diam., or shrub.
Leaves pari- (rarely im-pari-)pinnate, (3-)4-6-jugate, 40-50 cm;
Inflorescences cauliflorous, several to many fascicled on knobs on the stem, simple or hardly branched, racemoid, c. 1.5 cm long, flowers few;
Flowers 4-merous.
Sepals pale pink, outer 2 elliptic, 2.5 by 2 mm, with petaloid margin, inner broad-ovate, 3 by 2 mm, for the greater part petaloid.
Petals white, sparsely long ciliate near the base, 0.4 mm long clawed, blade semi-transversely ellipsoid, 1 by 1.8 mm;
Stamens 5-7;
Ovary suborbicular, flattened, 2-celled, pale yellowish;
Fruits transversely ellipsoid, slightly bilobed, 1 by 1.5 cm, crimson to dark purple, incompletely 2-celled.
Seeds ellipsoid.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Sarawak: around Kuching present
Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak: around Kuching).