Archidendron brevipes

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Archidendron brevipes

Description

Small slender myrmecophilous tree up to 5 m high. Branchlets and stipules unknown, but stipules apparently caducous. Leaves: Inflorescence borne on the trunk, greenish yellow, pubescent by patent hairs, consisting of a simple or once-branched raceme, 1-2.5 cm; Flowers male or bisexual. Stamens 25-37 mm, tube longer than the corolla-tube. Ovaries 3-5, glabrous. Seeds shining black, obovoid, 4-5 by 2-2.5 cm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, NE New Guinea present
Malesia: NE New Guinea.

Notes

The pod as described by K. Schumann is probably misplaced, and possibly belongs to a species of ser. Bellae. For notes on the variation of this species, see Verdcourt (I.с.: 233) and Nielsen (I.c.).

Citation

De Wit 1952 – In: Reinwardtia: 79
K. Schum. & Lauterb. 1900: Fl. Deut. Schutzgeb. Sudsee: 343: pl. 9
Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Legum.: 232
Nielsen 1984: p. 88. – In: Opera Bot.: f. 56, 57