Lepiniopsis ternatensis
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Description
Tree to 36 m tall, to 46 cm dbh;
Bark grey, yellowish grey, grey-brown or brown, smooth or vertically finely fissured or pustular;
Branchlets glabrous, not lenticellate.
Leaves:
Inflorescence 1.5-24 cm long;
Sepals ovate, 0.9-1.8 by 1.1-1.4 mm, 0.7-1 times as long as wide, apex rounded, glabrous, not ciliate.
Stamens inserted at 4.7-7 mm from corolla base which is 0.5-0.7 of tube length;
Ovary 0.7-0.9 mm high, glabrous;
Fruit red or black, 2.1-7 by 0.9-1.9 cm, ellipsoid, often somewhat curved.
Seeds 17-21 by 4-7 by 4.5-5 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present)
Malesia: Philippines, Sulawesi, Moluccas, New Guinea.
Taxonomy
Markgraf (1984) suggested that a specimen cultivated in Bogor and collected by Teijsmann, housed in Leiden, is the holotype of this species. However, it is clear from the protologue that a specimen labelled as Kurz 5601 is the type material and the only specimens I have found of this are in Bogor.