Rinorea bengalensis
Content
Description
Growth apparently in flushes, but internodes of equal length.
Leaves often distichous.
Stipules appressed, triangular, slender, (4-)8-16 mm long, brown and distinctly striate.
Inflorescences on the young twigs;
Sepals ⅓-½ the length of the petals, rarely as long;
Petals strap-shaped and often S-curved, (2½-)3-4(-5) mm long.
Ovary sometimes hairy, with 3 ovules, style glabrous.
Fruit at the base with the dried striate sepals and petals, before maturity globose, (½-)1-1½ cm ø, with a rest of the style, dull, glabrous.
Seeds 3, subglobose, 3-7½ mm, yellow-brown with specks of purple to dull purple all over.
Distribution
Andamans present, Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present), Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Jawa (Jawa absent), Burma present, Carolines present, Ceylon present, Indochinese Peninsula present, Melanesia present, S. India present, S. Sumatra absent, northern Queensland present
Ceylon, S. India, Assam, Burma, Indochinese Peninsula and Hainan, Andamans, scattered through Malesia (not in S. Sumatra and Java); Northern Queensland, Melanesia, Carolines.
Notes
A shrub which may already be fertile when 2 feet tall, to a tree of c. 20 m by 28 cm. Wood yellow, flowers green to white, fruit orange with red seeds, or cream-brown, or pale green. Several records mention the rich green leaves. A very polymorphic species.
As the plant has never been found again in Java after BLUME’S collection from Mts Salak and Burangrang, which was described as Alsodeia paradoxa, I think the record is apocryphous. ZOLLINGER 2979, the type of Pentaloba semigyrata, was from a plant in the Bogor Gardens.
As the plant has never been found again in Java after BLUME’S collection from Mts Salak and Burangrang, which was described as Alsodeia paradoxa, I think the record is apocryphous. ZOLLINGER 2979, the type of Pentaloba semigyrata, was from a plant in the Bogor Gardens.
Citation
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 104
RECH. 1913: p. 137. – In: Denkschr. K. Ak. Wiss. M.-N. Kl. Wien: t. 6, f. lib.
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 115
Merr. 1951 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 80
HOOK.f. & TH. 1872 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1: 186
MERR. & CHUN 1940: p. 127. – In: Sunyatsenia: f. 12
King 1889 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 400
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 128
Merr. 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 145
BACK. & BAKH.f. 1964 – In: Fl. Java: 194
JACOBS 1967 – In: Blumea: 128
GAGN. 1939 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 190
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 104
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 129
Merr. 1951 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 80
KANJ. & DAS 1934 – In: FL Assam: 82
KURZ 1877 – In: For. Fl. Burma: 70
HEND. 1939 – In: J. Mal. Br. R. As. Soc.: 35
OUDEM. 1869 – In: Miq., Ann. 4: 215
MELCH. 1929 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 369