Guioa reticulata
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Description
Tree, 7-8 m high, dbh c. 12.5 cm.
Branchlets golden sericeous (to hirsute) when young;
Leaves 2-5-jugate;
Inflorescences axillary, branching basally and along the usually flattened, sericeous (to hirsute), 3.4-23.3 cm long axis;
Flowers 3.5-3.8 mm in diam.
Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, (outside pilose), inside glabrous;
Petals 5, obovate, 2.8-3.1 by 1-1.5 mm, blade obovate, gradually decur-rent into the 0.8-1.3 mm high claw, margin pilose, outside and inside (sub)glabrous, apex obtuse;
Stamens 8;
Fruits with 1 or 2 well developed lobes, 1-1.1 by 1.2-1.4 cm, smooth, glabrous, red when fresh, blackish when dry;
Seeds obovoid, c. 7.2 by 5.8 mm;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Luzon present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon).
Notes
1. Several specimens have a patent, hirsute indumentum instead of the more common ap-pressed sericeous hairs; they were described as a separate species (G. sulphurea). This phenomenon is also occasionally found in other species (e.g., G. chrysea, G. subsericea).
2. Jacobs 7983 is exceptional because the inflorescences, pedicels, and sepals are very densely sericeous.
2. Jacobs 7983 is exceptional because the inflorescences, pedicels, and sepals are very densely sericeous.