Sarcotheca glauca
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Description
Shrub or tree, up to 21 m, 30 cm ø;
Leaves unifoliolate, 4.5-11 by 1¾-4 ¾ cm (on sterile twigs larger, up to 13½ by 6½ cm), elliptic to oblong, acute to acuminate, base obtusely cu-neate to emarginate, glabrous;
Sepals 1¾-3 by ¾-1 ¼ mm, ovate to oblong.
Petals red, darker at apex, 3¾-6 by 1-2 mm, oblong to lanceolate, sometimes obovate.
Panicles 1-2 together, erect, 1½-13 cm, rusty-puberulous;
Fruit bright pink to dark red, 8-12 by 5-11 mm, subglobose to ellipsoid with obtuse to rounded apex, glabrescent;
Seeds 6 by 3½ mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Brunei present, Sabah present, Sarawak present), NW. Borneo present
Malesia: NW. Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah).
Notes
This species is closely allied to S. ru-brinervis HALL.f. and differs in having a less puberulous, when dry dark red to crimson calyx, a short compact panicle with very reduced primary branches, while the way of branching in the cyme is indistinct. The pistil in LF is 3¼-3½ mm long, the filaments in SF 2-2¾ and 2½-3⅔ mm. The cotyledons are lanceolate.