(5) REGIONAL KEY TO THE SPECIES — SULAWESI (8 species)

1Leaves (15-)20-40(-50) cm long; lower surface with persistent short dense indumentum. [Inflorescence a (sub)sessile, short brachyblast]
1'Leaves generally smaller; lower surface glabrous, glabrescent, or with minute sparseindumentum.
2Inflorescences (infructescences) with a peduncle. Buds angular in apical part. Fruits glabrescent or with sparse greyish hairs.
2'Inflorescences sessile or pedunculate. Buds rounded in apical part, not angular (of some species male flowers not known). Fruits with (minute) rusty indumentum
3Twigs 1-2 mm diam.
3'Twigs generally thicker, 1.5-5 mm diam. Inflorescence a (sub)sessile brachyblast, peduncle absent or to 2 mm long only.
4Leaves membranous, 9-19 cm long. Inflorescences slenderly pedunculate, sometimes subsessile. Flowers small, conspicuously rough-hairy. Fruits not known.
4'Leaves coriaceous, (2.5-)4-7.5 cm long. Inflorescences sessile. Flowers not known. Fruits ± ellipsoid, 2-2.5 cm long. — Ultrabasic soils of Central Sulawesi.
5Twigs 4-5 mm diam. Leaves coriaceous, lower leaf surface not whitish, not minutely dotted (lens!). [Fruits subglobose, 5 cm diam.; pericarp nearly woody, 10 mm thick.] — Central Sulawesi; soils on conglomeratic and ultrabasic bedrock; 400 m.
5'Twigs 1.5-5 mm diam. Leaves membranous, lower surface conspicuously pale, minutely dark-dotted (lens!).
6Twigs 4-5 mm diam. Female flowers and fruits (sub)sessile. Fruits subglobose, 2-2.5(-3) cm long; pericarp 1-3 mm thick, hairs 0.1-0.2 mm. [Male flowers not known.] — N, C and SW Sulawesi.
6'Twigs 1.5-4(-5) mm diam. Female flowers and fruits stipitate. Fruits ± ellipsoid, 3-4 cm long; pericarp 3-6(-8) mm thick, hairs 0.1 mm.
7Twigs 1.5-3 mm diam. Fruiting pedicel 6-10 mm long, conspicuously pubescent, hairs 1-1.5 mm. [Male flowers not known.] — NE Sulawesi (Minahasa).
7'Twigs 2-4(-5) mm diam. Fruiting pedicel 3-5(-7) mm long, glabrescent or with hairs to 0.5 mm only. — Sulawesi (except Minahasa); incl. Kjellberg 2990.