Kopsia flavida

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Kopsia flavida

Description

Tree to 9.15 m tall, to 27.5 cm dbh. Bark ashy-brown, brown or grey, smooth; Branchlets glabrous, sparsely lenticellate or not. Leaves: Inflorescence dichasial or cincinnate, 6-6.5 cm long with axes 1-3.5 cm long and branches 1.2-2.2 mm wide, glabrous or puberulent in upper parts; Sepals ovate or oblong, 1.6-3 by 0.9-2.4 mm, 1.1-2.2 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acute, ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted 23-40 mm from corolla base which is 0.8-0.9 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; Ovaries 1.2-1.5 mm high, glabrous or, rarely, very sparsely pubescent on top; Fruit with a sharp deltoid spur, 27-35 by 10-14 by 3-5.5 mm, spur 8-13 mm long, glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Micronesia present, Solomon Islands present, Vanuatu present
Micronesia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu; in Malesia: Philippines, Moluccas, New Guinea.

Citation

Sleesen 1959 – In: Fl. Mal. Misc. Rec. p 10
Merr. & L.M. Perry 1941 – In: Philipp. J. Sci. p 20
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind. p 411
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol. p 149
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol. p 151
Merr. & L.M. Perry 1941 – In: Philipp. J. Sci. p 20
Markgr. 1926 – In: Nova Guinea. p 283
J. Fraser & Hemsl. 1917: Johns. Gard. Dict., new ed. p 156
Merr. 1926 – In: Philipp. J. Sci. p 412
Lauterb. & K. Schum. 1927 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. p 195
Mabb. 1985 – In: Taxon. p 456
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol. p 165
Merr. & L.M. Perry 1941 – In: Philipp. J. Sci. p 20
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol. p 150
D.J. Middleton 2004 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot. p 104
Sévenet et al. 1994 – In: J. Ethno-pharmacol. p 154
Markgr. 1973 – In: Blumea. p 423