Parasponia
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Description
Shrubs to medium-sized trees.
Bark grey-brown, smooth to finely fissured;
Leaves (in Mal.) triplinerved at base, concolorous, above non-scabrous to variously scabrous, mostly glabrous except for the midrib and lateral nerves, lower surface variously pubescent.
Stipules intrapetiolar, connate into a bifurcate unit and together enclosing the terminal bud, caducous.
Inflorescences axillary, ♂, ♀, or ♂♀, much-branched, many-flowered, paniculate or thyrsoid, including the bracts densely short greyish appressed-pubescent.
Flowers 5-merous.
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Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Banda present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Lombok present, Melanesia present, New Britain present, New Hebrides present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present), Palembang present, Polynesia present, S. Sumatra present, Solomons present, Tahiti present, Ternate present
5 spp., in Polynesia (Tahiti) and Melanesia (Fiji, New Hebrides, Solomons); in Malesia: New Guinea (incl. New Britain), Moluccas (Ternate, Banda), Philippines, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Is. (Lombok, Bali), Java, and S. Sumatra (Palembang). , .