Aphananthe philippinensis

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Aphananthe philippinensis

Description

Shrub to medium-sized tree up to 28 m, 40 cm ø. Bark smooth to finely fissured, peeling off into rectangular flakes, lenticellate. Leaves glabrous, thin- to thick-coriaceous, ovate, elliptic, or obovate, (2-)3-6(-10) by (l-)2-3(-4) cm, index 2-2.6; Stipules subulate, 2-3 by ¼ mm. Fruit ovoid-globose, 6-8 by 4-6 mm, 3-4-angular, sparsely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, pedicel c. 5-10 mm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Queensland (Queensland present), Luzon present, Solomons present
Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) and Solomons; in Malesia: New Guinea and Philippines (Luzon). .

Citation

BTH. 1873 – In: Fl. Austr.: 160
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 208
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 219
FRANCIS 1951: Austr. Rainforest Trees, ed. 2: f. 24 & 25. 192
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 34
Hook.f. 1876 – In: Icon.