Parinari oblongifolia
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Description
Trees to 40 m tall, trunk low thick buttressed to 2 m, the young branches minutely tomentellous, glabrescent, conspicuously prominently lenticellate.
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong, 14-23 by 4-9 cm, glabrous above, with stomatal cavities filled with grey lanate pubescence beneath, shortly acuminate at apex, the tip 3-13 mm long, rounded to subcordate at base;
Stipules ovate to lanceolate, acute, 3-5 mm, pilose on exterior, early caducous.
Inflorescences of large, spreading terminal panicles, 10-21 cm long by 7-12 cm broad, the rachis and branches yellow-grey tomentellous;
Petals white to bluish, lanceolate to spathulate, narrowed towards base, c. 2 mm long, glabrous.
Stamens 8-10, with tooth-like staminodes opposite.
Ovary pilose;
Fruit ellipsoid, 5-9 by 3-4 cm, epicarp densely lenticellate;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Kalimantan present, Sabah present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Johore present, S. Kelantan present
Malesia: Malay Peninsula (S. Kelantan to Johore), Sumatra, Borneo (Sabah, Kalimantan). .
Citation
HOOK. f. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 668
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 527
PRANCE & WHITM. 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 335
FOXW. 1927 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 175
RIDLEY 1902 – In: Agr. Bull. Str. & Fed. Mal. St.: 144
King 1897 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 279
KOSTERM. 1965: p. 165. – In: Reinwardtia: f. 8