Dysoxylum macrocarpum
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Description
Tree to 33 m; bole to 50 cm diam., with plank buttresses to 2 m tall and 1 m out.
Bark smooth to longitudinally cracked, grey-green, faintly hooped and finely lenticellate; inner bark cream, flecked orange, fibrous within; wood pale yellow.
Leaves to 1 m, 3- or 4-jugate, subglabrous; petiole to 38 cm, swollen at base; rachis to 70 cm, markedly channelled adaxially.
Petals 4, finely hairy, creamy-white to orangeish.
Staminal tube hairy within, margin ± truncate; anthers 8 (9), inserted within tube.
Ovary pubescent; style terete; stylehead discoid.
Capsule to 10 cm diam., globose to pyriform, 8-locular, shallowly ridged, bright orange-red; pericarp with white latex; the mesocarp fleshy, orange-yellow.
Seeds 1–4, 4.5 by 2.5 cm, orange-segment- shaped, with dark red-brown testa and thick pale orange raphe; cotyledons green.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present)
Thailand and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Celebes.
Citation
K. Heyne 1950: Nutt. Pl. Indon., ed. 3: 894
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 244.
Backer 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 207
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 123
Koord. & Valeton 1896 – In: Bijdr. Booms. Java: 69
M. Roem. 1846 – In: Synops. Monogr.: 101
G.Don 1831 – In: Gen. Syst.: 683
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 537
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 441
Miq. 1861: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 196
Miq. 1868: p. 23. – In: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.: incl. f. sumatranum
Koord. 1913 – In: Atlas: t. 178
C.DC. 1878: p. 510. – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: incl. var. sumatranum (Miq.) C.DC.