Swintonia schwenkii

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Description

Tree up to 45(-53) m high and 70(-120) cm Ø. Bark grey-brown, dark reddish green, smooth or dippled, sometimes deeply fissured. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, rarely elliptic, 7-12(-16) by 3-4½(-6) cm, glabrous; Flowers white. Petals elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 2-3 by ¾-l mm, cuneate at the base; Stamens ¾-1½45 mm; Ovary subglobose, ⅔ mm Ø;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Kalimantan present, Sabah present, Sarawak present); Cambodia (Cambodia present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Baram present, Bulungan present, Burma present, Hort. Bog cultivated, Indragiri present, Johore present, Kedah present, Kuantan present, Kuching present, Kutai present, Lahad Datu present, Lundu present, Malacca present, Melawi Tjatit present, Moro I present, Negri Sembilan present, P. Morsala present, Pahang present, Paria-man present, Penang present, Selangor present, Serian present, Tapanuli present, Trengganu present

Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Malesia: Sumatra (Tapanuli: P. Morsala; Paria-man, Kuantan, Indragiri, Moro I.), Malay Peninsula (Kedah, Trengganu, Pahang, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Johore, Penang, Singapore), Borneo (Sarawak: Serian, Lundu, Kuching, Baram; Sabah: Lahad Datu; Kalimantan: Melawi Tjatit, Bulungan, Kutai).
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. Sub n. XI-M-11.

Citation

CRAIB 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. En.: 353

KURZ 1876 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 207

Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mai. Pen.: 533

King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 489

Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 350

TARD. 1962 – In: Fl. C. L. & V.: 108

Hook.f. 1892 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 5: 148

DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 39

SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 13: pl. 4

MEIJER 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. F. D. Sandakan: 32

GRIFF. 1854 – In: Ic. Pl. As.: f. 2b-d.

KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mai. For. Rec.: 354

ENGL 1883: p. 232. – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: t. 5, f. 17-19