Cordia aspera
Content
Description
Small tree or scrambling shrub.
Leaves: petiole 0.7-8 cm long; blade ovate-acute, (2.5-)5-22 by 1.5-16 cm, margin finely serrate with cuspidate teeth, base obliquely to subhori-zontally truncate or rounded, apex acute to acuminate, rarely subobtuse, nerves (3-)4-6 on each side, darker upper surface short strigillose, pale lower surface tomentose.
Inflorescence subcorymbose, lateral, subterminal or in fork of uppermost branches; peduncle 0.7-3.5 cm long.
Flowers numerous; pedicels less than 1 mm long.
Stamens with short filaments, anthers exserted from the corolla.
Fruit ovoid, acute, (5-)8 by (4-)5 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Australasia, Flores present, Solomon, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa Islands, New Caledonia present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Solomon, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa Islands, New CaledoniaAustralia; Malesia: Borneo, Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa, Flores, Timor), Moluccas, New Guinea.