Celtis hildebrandii

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Celtis hildebrandii

Description

Arbor magna usque ad 45 m alta et 1 m diam. Large tree up to 45 m, 100 cm ø. Bark smooth to finely fissured, often pustullate, light-brown to grey-brown. Folia tenuiter coriacea, oblique ovato-elliptica, (5-)8-ll(-14) × (3-)4-6(-8) cm, ind. 1.5-2, glabra, nervis lateralibus uniparibus usque ad 4/5 partem laminae longitudinis ascendentibus, reticulatione laxa subscalariformi; Leaves thin-coriaceous, obliquely ovate-elliptic, (5—)8—11 (—14) by (3-)4-6(-8) cm, index 1½-2; Stipules ovate-acute, peltately attached and overlapping, thick, c. 5 by 3 mm. Inflorescentiae ♂ et ⚥; Inflorescence 3 or g, axillary or subterminal on new shoots, much-branched, many-flowered, including the bracts rather densely yellowish-brown to rufous appressed-hairy, glabrescent; Flowers 5-merous. Fructus ovoideo-globosus, ± 4- vel 5-angulatus, 10-12 × 8-10 mm; Fruit ovoid-globose, glabrous, ± 4-5-angular, slightly beaked, 10-12 by 8-10 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Bum present, New Britain present, Solomons present
Solomons (common); in Malesia: Moluccas (Bum, rare), New Guinea (W. & E. parts, common; New Britain).