Barringtonia lauterbachii
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Description
Large canopy trees.
Leaves:
Inflorescences short and with 2-10 flowers, axillary or on stem just below leaf cluster, pendulous;
Flowers with pedicels 0.8-2 cm long, glabrous, pink;
Fruits and seeds unknown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Papua New Guinea present, Sepik present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Sepik).
Notes
This species is notable for the very short inflorescence shared with only one other species from New Guinea, B. jebbiana. This species has been confused with B. sepikensis, but differs in many ways such as the shorter few-flowered inflorescence, the glabrous inflorescence rachis and hypanthium and the larger leaves. Much sterile material can be confused with B. novae-hiberniae, which differs in the terminal rather than cauliflorous inflorescence, the shorter leaves and in the petiole that is not winged or only slightly so. The buds of this species are firmly closed whereas those of B. novae-hiberniae have an apical pore.