Dimocarpus longan
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Description
Trees, exceptionally shrubs, up to 30(-40) m high, dbh up to 30(-80) cm, buttresses up to 2 m high.
Leaves 2-4(-6)-jugate, axial parts variably, mostly densely hairy;
Inflorescences 8-40 cm long, densely tufted-tomentose;
Sepals 2-5 by 1-3 mm, inside at least partly variably short-hairy.
Petals 5, broadly to narrowly spathulate, 1.5-6 by 0.8-2 mm, both sides for the greater part densely woolly (big ones) to subglabrous (small ones), apex especially inside if not woolly with sessile glands.
Stamens:
Fruits:
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present); Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. absent; New Guinea present; Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka present), S China present, continental Asia present
Continental Asia from Sri Lanka and India to S China, Hainan, and Taiwan, and Malesia (in Java and New Guinea probably only naturalized; not seen from the Lesser Sunda Islands).
Citation
Kanjilal & Das 1936 – In: Fl. Assam. p 323
Lui 1962 – In: Illustr. Lign. Pl. Taiwan. p 908
Merr. 1935: Comm. Lour. p 248
Lindi. 1835 – In: Bot. Reg. t. 1729
Lour. 1793 – In: Fl. Coch., ed. 2. p 288
Griff. 1930: Dispersal. p 341
Allen 1967: Malayan Fruits: 179. f. 65
Lecomte 1912 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine. p 1046
Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98. p 909
Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98. p 898
Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98. p 905
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 137
Hiern 1875 – In: Hook. f., Fl. Br. India 1. p 689
Backer 1911: Schoolfl. Java. p 265
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. p 503
Hiern 1875 – In: Hook. f., Fl. Br. India 1. p 688
Lam. 1917: Int. Rumph. p 338
Douglas & Baas Becking 1947: 287, 289. – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg. t. 7
J. Knight: pp. 400-502. – In: Trans. Hort. Soc. t. 28(bis)
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins. p 499
auct. non Desfont.: Blanco 1845: Fl. Filip., ed. 2. p 199
Merr. 1912: Fl. Manila. p 305
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 592. t. 179
Kurz 1876 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 187
Leenh. 1971 – In: Blumea. p 122
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. p 503
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins. p 502
Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98. p 905
Hassk. 1844 – In: Tijd. Nat. Gesch. Phys. p 213
Groff 1921: Lychee and Longan
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 136
auct. non Desfont.: Blanco 1878 – In: Fl. Filip., ed. 3. p 8