Euthemis minor
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Description
Shrublet up to 3(-5?) m.
Branchlets slender, blackish.
Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 4-15 by 1½-4 cm, obtuse at apex, mucronate, tapering at base, margin faintly denticulate, nerves c. 1 mm apart;
Stipules c. 3 by 1 mm, acuminate, serrulate.
Flowers functionally polygamous, complete, often 2 or more conferted.
Sepals obovate, unequal, 4-4½ by 2½-3½ mm. ciliate near the apex, acuminate.
Petals lanceolate, 6-8 by 2½-3 mm, distinctly reflexed in ♂ flowers.
Ovary in ♀ or ☿ flowers obovoid, 5-ribbed, c. 2½ by 1⅓ mm;
Fruit globular, up to 6 mm ø, acuminate, 5-ribbed, red.
Seeds semi-annular, c. 4 by 2½ mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present, Banka present, Billiton present, Central E. Sumatra present, Lingga Is present, Riouw present, S. Malay Peninsula present
Malesia: Central E. Sumatra, Riouw&Lingga Is., Banka, Billiton, S. Malay Peninsula (?), Borneo.
Notes
Many specimens are doubtlessly functionally male. I am not certain whether fruiting specimens generally have bisexual or functionally female flowers, but these possibilities are probably both realised.
This species was never recorded from the mainland of the Malay Peninsula. Three older collections are known to me from Singapore I., where it is probably now extinct.
This species was never recorded from the mainland of the Malay Peninsula. Three older collections are known to me from Singapore I., where it is probably now extinct.
Citation
AIRY SHAW 1940: Kew Bull. p 250
SCHEFF. 1873 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I. p 412
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. p 388
JACK 1830 – In: Hook., Bot. Misc. 2. p 69
AIRY SHAW 1940: Kew Bull. p 250
King 1893 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 235
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 675
Wall. 1824 – In: Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2. p 304
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. p 33
KANIS 1968 – In: Blumea. p 65
JACK 1860: Sumatra. 209, 534
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen. p 368
AIRY SHAW 1940: Kew Bull. p 250
AIRY SHAW 1940: Kew Bull. p 250
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. p 33
Merr. 1952 – In: J. Arn. Arb. p 224
BARTELL. 1901 – In: Malpighia. p 168
Ridl. 1910 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. p 34
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc. p 389
BENN. 1875 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1. p 526
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. p 32
BARTELL. 1901 – In: Malpighia. p 169
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. p 33
BARTELL. 1901 – In: Malpighia. p 169