Semecarpus aruensis

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Semecarpus aruensis

Description

Small tree, sometimes a shrub, 3-14 m high. Bark light brown, fissured. Leaves spaced, spiral, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate, sometimes narrow-oblanceolate, rarely elliptic, (10-)15-28(-34½) by (3½-)5-8½ (-15) cm; Flowers white. Petals valvate, elliptic, or ovate-oblong, 2-3 by 1-1½ mm in ♂ (c. 4½ by 2 mm in ♀), sericeous outside, with 6-10 longitudinal veins. Stamens 1½-4 mm; Panicles terminal and/or axillary, rarely raceme-like, 3½-27(-38) cm long; Ovary subglobose, c. 2 mm Ø, velutinous;

Distribution

Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: Aru Is. and New Guinea (widely distributed but scattered).

Citation

KANEH. & HATUS. 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 169
MERR. & PERRY 1941 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 538