Vatica pauciflora
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Description
Small or medium-sized tree.
Outside of perianth +- persistently pale grey-brown cinereous;
Leaves 6.5-20 by 2.2-8 cm, variable in size, elliptic-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous;
Panicle to 9 cm long, terminal or subterminal axillary, many-flowered, irregularly branching.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Lampong present, Palembang present, Peninsular Thailand present
Peninsular Thailand, and in Malesia: Malaya, Sumatra (Palembang, Lampong), Banka.
Notes
Occupying the same habitat as V. umbonata and indistinguishable from it when sterile; it is by the fruit calyx nevertheless consistently distinguishable. Though V. pauciflora is confirmed only as far north as Songkhla, V. thorelii Pierre of Cochinchina, based on Thorel & Harmand's herb. Pierre 1586, is known only in flower and is indistinguishable in that condition from it; moreover I have seen undoubted fruit of V. pauciflora washed up on the beach at Kompong Som, S.E. Cambodia.
See also 56. V. obtusa Burck.
A specimen from Sikundur For. Res., W.N.W. of Medan (N.E. Sumatra) (de Wilde & de Wilde-Duyfjes 19537) bears fruit which differs in having greatly enlarged adnate sepals, in this resembling V. umbonata, so far unknown from Sumatra. This may represent a hybrid between the two species, nevertheless.
See also 56. V. obtusa Burck.
A specimen from Sikundur For. Res., W.N.W. of Medan (N.E. Sumatra) (de Wilde & de Wilde-Duyfjes 19537) bears fruit which differs in having greatly enlarged adnate sepals, in this resembling V. umbonata, so far unknown from Sumatra. This may represent a hybrid between the two species, nevertheless.
Citation
DC. 1868 – In: Prod.: 626
Sloot. 1927: p. 123. – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: f. 12
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1131
Burck 1887: p. 227. – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: t. 29-1
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 124
Miq. 1861: Sum.: 191
Burk. 1920 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 75
Gilg 1925 – In: E. & P., Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 21: 264
Brandis & Gilg 1895 – In: E. & P., Pfl. Fam., ed. 1, 3: 269
Ashton 1978 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 19
Craib 1925 – In: Fl. Siam. Enum.: 141
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1132
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 250
Hall.f. 1918 – In: Med. Rijksherb.: 14
Heyne 1917 – In: Nutt. Pl., ed. 1: 313
Burk. & Foxw. 1922 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 273
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1132
Burck 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1131
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 244
Burck 1887: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 226
Heyne 1927: Nutt. Pl., ed. 2: 1131
Burk. 1935: Dict.: 2225
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 124
Foxw. 1932 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 269
DC. 1868 – In: Prod.: 618
Sloot. 1927 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 126
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 136
M. A. 1866 – In: DC., Prod. 15: 1257
Sym. 1943: p. 230. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: f. 106, 107, 110
Backer & Bakh.f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 332
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 124
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 123