Semecarpus australiensis
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Description
Tree (7-)15-24(-40) m high and (8-)27-60(-80) cm Ø, occasionally with short buttresses, rarely myrmecophilous.
Bark variously light grey, fawn, or brown, rather smooth, or scaly.
Leaves spaced, spiral, coriaceous or chartaceous, elliptic-oblong, broad-elliptic, sometimes obovate-oblong, 11-32 by 7-17 cm (up to 41 by 18 cm on a vegetative branch), glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy on the nerves and veins beneath;
Petals white or cream-white, imbricate, ovate, ovate-oblong, 2½-4 by 1½-2 mm, puberulous outside, with c. 10 distinct, longitudinal veins.
Stamens 3 mm;
Panicles terminal, sometimes also in the leaf axils at the end of twigs, rarely cauligerous, 14-35 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent;
Ovary subglobose, 2 mm Ø, densely pubescent;
Distribution
Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia, Cape York present, Central Distr present, Fly R present, Gelieb present, Isuarava present, Merauke present, Milne Bay Distr present, Morobe Distr present, New Britain present, Normanby I present, Rockingham Bay present, Sepik present, Yirrkaka present
Australia (Cape York, Yirrkaka, Rockingham Bay); in Malesia: Aru Is., New Guinea (Gelieb, Fly R., Merauke, Isuarava, Morobe Distr., Sepik, Central Distr., Milne Bay Distr.; Normanby I.), and New Britain.