Dysoxylum grande
Description
Tree to 39 m; bole to 70 cm diam., with plank buttresses to 2 m tall and 7.5 m out.
Bark smooth to dippled, greyish brown, lenticellate; inner bark with cream and pinkish purple tangential bands; sapwood yellow brown.
Leaves to 1 m long, 6–9-jugate with apical stub or spike, one of the lateral leaflets often appearing terminal; petiole 10–15 cm, ± 3-angled, ± fulvous pubescent, base swollen.
Flowers subsessile in cymules of 3 or 4, fragrant.
Petals 4, c. 9 mm long (7 mm in males), oblong, densely tomentose without, creamy yellow.
Staminal tube minutely pubescent without, glabrous within, margin with 8 short, broadly triangular lobes; anthers 8, c. 1.2 mm long, oblong, included.
Ovary densely pilose, (3-) 4- (or 5-)locular, each locule (?) l-ovulate; style 4-angled, pubescent in proximal 1/2; stylehead cylindric-capitate, with basal annulus.
Capsules 1–4 on stout peduncles, 5–8 cm long, 7–11 cm diam., depressed globose, apically dimpled, orange, 3–5-sulcate.
Seeds 1–4(–5), c. 2.5 cm long, with thick (?) sarcotesta; cotyledons green.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Sabah present, Sarawak present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Assam and southern China to Thailand and Hainan present, C and S Sumatra present, Nunukan Is. present
Assam and southern China to Thailand and Hainan; Malesia: C and S Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah and Nunukan Is.). See Note 2.
Morphology
, from Leyte, Philippines (type: Wenzel 28 - E, G) may also belong here.
The specimens from Borneo are, in general, less pubescent than others.
Citation
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 538
Kurz 1877 – In: For. Fl. Burma: 216
C.E. Parkinson 1923: For. Fl. Andam.: 119.
Anon. 1900: Andam. Nicob. Gaz. April
C. DC 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 486
Kanj. et al. 1936 – In: Fl. Assam: 232
Wu 1977: p. 250. – In: Fl. Yunnan.: t. 59 f. 1, 2
Kloss 1903: Andam. Nicob.: 336
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 392.
Brandis 1906: Indian Trees: 139.
Kurz 1875 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 145
Merr. 1927 – In: Lingn. Sc. J.: 103
How & Chen 1955: p. 15. – In: Acta Phytotax. Sin.: incl. var. paucinervium How & Chen
Hô 1992 – In: I11. Fl. Vietnam: 492
Hiern 1875 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 552
Li 1944 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 25: 302
Brandis 1906: Indian Trees: 138
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 534
Anon. 1974 – In: Fl. Hainan.: 64
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 244.
Brandis 1906: Indian Trees: 139