Falcatifolium
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Description
Dioecious shrubs to large trees to 36 m tall with thin more or less smooth brownish bark with scattered lenticels, reddish and somewhat fibrous within, breaking off in occasional flakes on larger specimens.
Leaves spirally placed, single veined, and alternating with elongated appressed scales which are loosely clustered at the shoot apices to form foliar buds between episodes of growth.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Lingga present, Mindoro present, N. & Central Celebes present, New Caledonia present, Obi I present, Riouw-Lingga Arch present
New Caledonia (1 sp.); in Malesia: New Guinea, Moluccas (Obi I.), N. & Central Celebes, Philippines (Mindoro), Borneo, Riouw-Lingga Arch. (Lingga), and Malaya.