Kopsia singapurensis

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Kopsia singapurensis

Description

Tree to 12 m tall, to 24 cm dbh. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely lenticellate or not, weakly angled. Leaves: Inflorescence dichasial, mostly many-flowered, 3.5-12.5 cm long with axes (0.5-)1.2-11.5 cm long and branches 1.2-1.8 mm wide, glabrous or puberulent in upper parts; Sepals ovate or oblong, 2-4 by 1.4-3.4 mm, 1-1.8 times as long as wide, apex rounded or obtuse, ciliate, glabrous to densely puberulent outside, glabrous inside. Stamens inserted 23.5-34 mm from corolla base which is 0.8-0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; Ovaries 1.6-1.9 mm high, sparsely to densely pubescent on top; Fruit oblique ellipsoid with either a simple angle or a spur on one side, 26-33 by 6-7 by 11.5-14 mm, angle/spur 2.5-3 mm long, glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present)
Malesia: Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore.

Citation

I.M. Turner 1997 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 47: 127
Whitmore 1972 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 19
D.J. Middleton 2004 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot.: 127
Corner 1952 – In: Wayside Trees Malaya, ed. 2: 146
Markgr. 1973 – In: Blumea: 421
I.M. Turner 1993 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 45: 35
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol.: 161
Sleesen 1959 – In: Fl. Mal. Misc. Rec.: 11