Celtis paniculata
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Description
Small to large tree, up to 36 m, 70 cm ø.
Bark smooth to finely fissured, light- to dark-brown.
Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, (5-)8-11(-13) by (2½ -)3-5(-6) cm, index (l½ -)2 (-2½);
Stipules overlapping, embracing the twig and enclosing the bud, broad-ovate-acute, thick, c. 4-5 by 3-4 mm.
Inflorescences ♂ or ♀ or rarely mixed, axillary or subterminal, much-branched, 5-60-flowered, including the bracts sparsely appressed-puberulous;
Flowers 5-merous.
Fruit ovoid, faintly 4-5-angular, beaked, glabrous, 7-12 by 5-8 mm, bluish to glaucous when ripe, mostly sterile.
Distribution
Ambon present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Lesser Sunda Is. present; Maluku (Maluku present ‒ present); New Guinea present, Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Ceram present, Cook Is present, Mangarawa I present, Melanesia present, Micronesia present, Morotai present, Mt Kinabalu present, New Caledonia present, New Hebrides present, Norfolk I present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present); Marianas present; Marquesas (Marquesas present); Tonga (Tonga present), Pitcairn present, Polynesia present, Solomons present, Tahiti present, Talaud Is present, Tanimbar present, Tuamotus present, Wetar present
Australia (Queensland, Norfolk I.), Melanesia (Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Polynesia (Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Cook Is., Pitcairn, Mangarawa I., Tuamotus, Marquesas), Micronesia (Marianas); in Malesia'. Lesser Sunda Islands (Wetar), Borneo (Mt Kinabalu, very rare), Moluccas (Morotai, Ceram, Ambon, Tanimbar), New Guinea (common in West, apparently rare in East), Moluccas (Talaud Is.: Lam 3175).
Citation
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 182
A.C. SMITH 1950 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 150
BTH. 1873 – In: Fl. Austr.: 156
FRANCIS 1951: Austr. Rainforest Trees, ed. 2: 67
PARHAM 1964: Pl. Fiji Isl.: 88
NADEAUD 1873: En. Pl. Tahiti: 42
PLANCH. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 184
KANEH. 1933: Fl. Micron: 82: f. 14
LAUT. 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 310