Gonocaryum litorale

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Description

Slender tree, rarely erect shrub, (2-)6-20(-30) m, rather sparsely and ± horizontally branched; Branchlets slender, practically glabrous as are the leaves. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, sometimes elliptic and even oblong, apex shortly acuminate, top blunt, base cuneate to rounded, slightly inequilateral, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, dark green to olivaceous and shining above, paler and ± dull beneath, (10-)12-20(-28) by 6-12(-19) cm, midrib a little depressed above, much prominent beneath, nerves (4-)5-7(-8) rather steeply curved-ascendent pairs, only the upper ones somewhat looping, raised within a depression in dry specimens above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, often obscure in dry specimens, or slightly depressed above, or a little raised on both faces; Seed pear-shaped or ellipsoid.

Distribution

Am present, Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Bismarcks present, Buton I present, Ceram present, Halmahera present, Kai present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Misool present, Morotai present, Mussau I present, New Britain present, Salawati present, Tanimbar Is present, Timor present

Malesia: Lesser Sunda Is. (Timor), Celebes incl. Buton I., Moluccas (Morotai, Halmahera, Ambon, Ceram, Kai and Tanimbar Is.), Am, Salawati, Misool, New Guinea&New Britain, and Mussau I. in the Bismarcks.

Uses

Wood hard, heavy, dark cream or yellowish or light orange, with broad rays and an oak-like grain, apparently not used due to the small dimensions.

Citation

VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin. p 247

AMSH. 1948 – In: Back., Bekn. Fl. Java, (em. ed.), 6. fam. 135, p. 2

BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia. p 111

MIERS 1852 – In: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. p 36

SCHEFF. 1876 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg. p 14

VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin. p 246

PULLE 1912 – In: Nova Guinea. p 659

HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg. 5, 49

HOCHR. 1904: Pl. Bog. Exs. p 43

HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg. p 50

SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb. p 166

PULLE 1912 – In: Nova Guinea. p 659

BACK. 1911: Schoolfl. Java. p 227

VALET. 1907 – In: Bull. Dép. Agr. Ind. Néerl. p 30

WETTSTEIN 1935: Handb. Syst. Bot., ed. 4: 842. fig.

K. SCH. & LAUT. 1900: Fl. Schutzgeb. p 415

SCHELLENB. 1923 – In: Bot. Jahrb. p 166

Bl. 1852 – In: Contr. Bot. p 87

HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg. 4, 51

Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java. p 532

BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia. p 123

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea. p 211

Koord. 1898: Minah. p 394

SCHEFF. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg. p 39

SCHEFF. 1910 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg Suppl. p 857

DAHL 1952 – In: J. Arn. Arb. p 265

BACK. & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 59

SCHEFF. 1876 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg. p 102

WALP. 1851 – In: Ann. p 182