Swintonia robinsonii

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Swintonia robinsonii

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Description

Tree up to 10½ m high and 26 cm Ø. Bark reddish brown, with shallow big dipples and loose, roundish, thin scales. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or lanceolate, 10-18½ by 3½-5 cm, glabrous, not papillose on the lower surface; Flowers white. Petals lanceolate or elliptic, 5-7 by 2-272 mm, truncate or obtuse at the base; Stamens 4½ mm; Panicles 8-17 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent; Ovary subglobose, c. 1½ mm ø;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), G. Rabong present, G. Tahan present, Pahang present, S. Kelantan present

Malesia: Malay Peninsula (Pahang: G. Tahan; S. Kelantan: G. Rabong).

Notes

This is one of the two species of this genus in Malesia with very small enlarged petals on the fruit, the other being S. minutalata, similarly as those of the Indo-Chinese S. pierrei HANCE (cf. ).
I have seen 7 collections, of which 6 from Mt Tahan, Pahang, and one from Mt Rabong, S. Kelantan.

Citation

Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mai. Pen.: 532