Chisocheton penduliflorus
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Description
Pachycaul treelet or tree to 10 m; bole to 10 cm diam.
Bark blackish; inner bark pale fawn.
Leaves imparipinnate or pseudogemmulate, to 8-jugate; petiole to 22 cm, ± channelled adaxially.
Inflorescence to 7 m, supra-axillary, pendent, unbranched or with distal branches to 7 cm long, usually with flowers congested in subsessile cymes at distal end, like a bellrope; axis 3–5 mm diam., densely rusty tomentose; bracts and bracteoles linear, hirsute.
Staminal tube pilose without below lobes, long-pilose with downward directed hairs in lower half within, margin with 3–5 irregularly bifid lobes; anthers 3–5, c. 3 mm long, locellate, glabrous, included or slightly exserted.
Ovary 3(?–5)-locular, densely long-pilose; style densely long-pilose in proximal 3/4; stylehead subdiscoid to capitate with ± pubescent annulus.
Capsules in infructescences of c. 10–15, to 5 cm long, recurved, rostrate when young, silky pubescent with (?)irritant hairs, splitting into 3 valves.
Seeds 3; testa black, covered on inner surface by red-orange aril.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Lower Thailand present, Riau/Lingga Archipelago present
Lower Thailandand Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Riau/Lingga Archipelago
Citation
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 237.
Mabb. 1982 – In: Mal. For.: 451
Harms 1896: p. 292. – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3, 4: t. 162 f. E-G
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 38
Curtis 1894 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 22
Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist, Bot.: 326
Burkill & Hend. 1925 – In: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl.: 356
C.DC. 1878: p. 536. – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: t. 7 f. 4
Ridley 1922: p. 388. – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: incl. var. kunstleri (King) Ridley
Harms 1940: p. 139. – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19bl: t. 30 f. E-G
Briq. 1935 – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: 66