Nothapodytes montana
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Description
Tree or treelet, 5-8(-20) m, 10-145(-20) cm Ø;
Branchlets slender obtusangular, early covered with pale brown cork and wrinkled in dry specimens.
Leaves lanceolate to obovate-oblong, apex obliquely acuminate (1-2 cm), subacute, base cuneate, ± equilateral, her- baceous to chartaceous, shining above, practically glabrous, often laxly tubercled beneath, 8-16 by 3-6.5 cm, midrib raised beneath, nerves in 6-9 pairs, curved or more strict, widely patent, rather indistinctly looping before the edge, reticulation of veinlets rather dense, finely raised both faces;
Petals oblong-linear, subacuminate distally, finally recurved, a little fleshy, greenish-white, glabrous or with few hairs in the lower half within, 4-5 by 1.5-2(-3)mm.
Ovary ovoid, gradually tapering to a shorter or more slender style (c. 2 mm) which at least in its lower half is appressedly hairy as is the ovary;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Karo Highlands present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Prachinburi present, W. Flores present, W. Sumbawa present, W. and SW. Java present
Thailand (Prachinburi); in Malesia: Sumatra (Eastcoast: Karo Highlands), extreme on W. and SW. Java, Lesser Sunda Is. (W. Sumbawa, W. Flores). .
Citation
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 226
MIERS 1852 – In: Contr. Bot.: 67
MIERS 1860: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 136
SLEUM. 1940 – In: Notizbl. Berl.-Dahl.: 247
K. & V. 1900 – In: Bijdr.: 143
VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin: 183: t. 5, f. 28
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 790
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 532
SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 233
Bl. 1970 – In: Fl. Thail.: 83
BACK. & BAKH.ƒ. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 61
HOWARD 1942 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 67
BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 118
AMSH. 1948 – In: Back., Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 6: fam. 135, p. 6