Strombosia ceylanica
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Description
Shrub or generally tree, 10-20 (-36) m;
Branchlets smooth, glabrous.
Leaves elliptic to ovate-oblong, sometimes ovate or suborbicular, apex shortly acuminate, tip acute or bluntish, rarely obtuse-rounded, base cuneate to obtuse or rounded, slightly inequilateral, firmly membranaceous when young, usually subcoriaceous, rarely coriaceous in later stages, glabrous, somewhat shining above when fresh, drying usually dull, greenish brown or glaucous-green, conspicuously parchment-like (shagreened) from close wrinkled surface and minutely pustular, ± distinctly and densely pel-lucid-punctulate, considerably varying in size even in the same specimen, 8-15 (-25) by 3-7 (-8.5, -11) cm;
Flowers from small woody warts, (1—) 3—6 (—15) per fascicle;
Petals 5, oblong or elongately so, greenish white, glabrous outside, hairy except the base inside, tips finally recurved about halfway.
Ovary semi-inferior in a conical faintly 5-lobed disk;
Seed 1, c. 1.2 cm.
Distribution
Anambas Is present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Ceylon present, SW. India present, West & Central Java present, Western Ghats from Kanara southwards present
Ceylon and SW. India (Western Ghats from Kanara southwards); in Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Anambas Is., West & Central Java, Borneo. .
Notes
Strombosia ceylanica is conceived here in a broad sense including S. latifolia, a variant with coriaceous leaves and up to 12 pairs of nerves, which in flower and fruit characters hardly differs from S. ceylanica s. str.
Citation
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