Alectryon ferrugineus

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Alectryon ferrugineus

Description

Tree up to 20 m high, dbh c. 25 cm, but mostly much smaller, or shrub; Leaves 2-8-jugate; Inflorescences axillary (or ramiflorous), panicles or thyrses, up to 30 cm long; Sepals 0.75-1.5 mm high, connate, inside hairy. Petals absent (but see note). Stamens: Fruits 2-lobed (to only 1 lobe developed), cannate and angled to shouldered, fairly densely hairy but finally glabrescent, the lobes about globular, 8-10 mm diam.;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Halmahera present, Ternate present, mainly the eastern half present
Malesia: Halmahera, Ternate, and New Guinea (mainly the eastern half).

Notes

Clemens 8489 from Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Boana, is the only specimen that has flowers with petals, albeit strongly reduced; they are c. 0.8 mm long and the scale is represented by a rim of hairs only.

Citation

Leenh. 1988 – In: Blumea: 321
P. Royen 1964 – In: Man. For. Trees Papua & New Guinea: f. 2
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 991
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 995
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 992