Tabernaemontana macrocarpa
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Description
Shrub or tree to 30 m tall, to 50 cm dbh, with or without low buttresses.
Bark yellowish brown, brown, grey-brown or grey, finely fissured or with corky lenticels;
Branchlets glabrous, lenticellate.
Leaves opposite;
Inflorescence few- to many-flowered, 7−20 cm long, glabrous;
Sepals ovate or suborbicular, 3−6 by 3−5 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as wide, apex rounded, ciliate, otherwise glabrous or with a few hairs outside.
Stamens inserted in lower half or around middle of corolla tube;
Ovaries glabrous, 2.5−4 mm long;
Fruit of 2 follicles, separate or joined at base, orange, 8−16 by 5−16 cm, sometimes with faint ridges, many-seeded.
Seeds with a red aril.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), southern Thailand present
Southern Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines.
Citation
Leeuwenb. 1991 – In: Rev. Tabernaemontana: 165
Masam. 1942: Enum. Phan. Born.: 624
I.M. Turner 1997 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 47: 129
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 423
P.S. Ashton 1988 – In: Man. non-Dipt. Trees Sarawak: 45
T.C. Huang 1986 – In: Taiwania: 102
Burkill 1916 – In: J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.: 258
Hallier 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 374
Merr. 1921: Bibliogr. Enum. Born. Pl.: 498
Jack 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 32
Jack 2001 – In: PROSEA: 535
J.A.R. Anderson 1980: Checklist Trees Sarawak: 149
D.J. Middleton 2004 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 54
D.J. Middleton 1997 – In: Argent et al., Man. non-Dipterocarp Trees C. Kalimantan 1: 83