Chisocheton pentandrus
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Description
Tree or treelet 3–18(–40, De Vogel) m; bole to 10 m, buttressed to 60 cm.
Bark greenish grey; inner bark pale fawn or pinkish; sapwood pale cream.
Leaves to 45 cm and to 9-jugate; petiole 2–10 cm, terete, minutely pubescent.
Inflorescence spiciform to thyrsoid, to 63 cm, axillary to supra-axillary, sometimes in axils of unexpanded leaves; axis finely velvety puberulous; flowers pedicellate, ± fragrant.
Petals (4 or) 5, 8–12(–16) by 2 mm, cream, densely fulvescent-hirsute without, valvate, apex acute.
Staminal tube white, ± densely pilose, rarely subglabrous within, pubescent without; margin 5-lobed, lobes laciniate; anthers 5 (6), 3 mm long, glabrous.
Ovary 2-locular, shortly stipitate, hirsute; style glabrous to pubescent.
Capsule to 21 mm diam., globose or beaked, dull red, minutely rusty tomentose; per carp with white latex.
Seeds 2, to 15 mm diam., flattened, sarcotestal.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Peninsular Thailand present, Sumatra and Malay Peninsula to Philippines and Moluccas present
Peninsular Thailand; Malesia: Sumatra and Malay Peninsula to Philippines and Moluccas
Taxonomy
The subspecies pentandrus and paucijugus are allopatric save in northern Borneo and Palawan, where the intermediate populations here given subspecific rank as subsp. medius, also occur.
Citation
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 26
West & Brown 1921 – In: Bull. Philipp. Dept. Agr. Bur. For.: 121
Perkins 1904: Fragm. Fl. Philipp.: 32
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 367.
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 319.
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 387
Heine 1953 – In: Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München: 218
Corner 1964: Life Pl.: t. 42
Corner 1976 – In: Seeds Dicots: t. 375c.
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 535
C.DC. 1878: p. 540. – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: t. 7 f. 8
Merr. 1926 – In: Philipp. J. Sc.: 378
Curtis 1894 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 22
M.Roem. 1846 – In: Synops. Monogr.: 115
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 540.
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc: 319
Briq. 1935 – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: 67.
Harms 1940 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19bl: t. 33
Guzman et al. 1986 – In: Guide Philipp. Fl. Fauna: 1336
Mabb. 1979: p. 363. – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist, Bot.: f. 8
Briq. 1935: p. 65. – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: incl. var. moluceanus Valeton (‘macrocarpus’).
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 125
Meijer 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. Sabah: 78.
Backer 1911: SchoolFl. Java: 209
Blanco 1845: Fl. Filip., ed. 2: 249
Vidal 1886: Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip.: 84.
West & Brown 1920 – In: Bull. Philipp. Dept. Agr. Bur. For.: 119
Elmer 1937 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot.: 3347
Meijer 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. Sabah: 78
Valeton 1905: p. 24. – In: Hochr., Cat. Bogor. Nov.: incl. var. moluceanus
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 367
Merr. 1929 – In: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.: 122
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 749.
Valeton 1904: p. 69. – In: Hochr., Pl. Bogor. Exsicc.: incl. var. moluccanus Valeton
Vidal 1883: Sin. Farn. Gen. Pl. Filip. Atl.: t. 29C
Harms 1937 – In: Fedde, Rep. 42: 7
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 443
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 237.