Chisocheton novobrittannicus

Primary tabs

Chisocheton novobrittannicus

Description

Tree to 13 m; bole to 20 cm diam. Leaves to 125 cm long, to 11-jugate; petiole 5–15 cm, rachis 5 mm diam. Inflorescences to 80 cm long, axillary, narrowly paniculiform, 2-branched with branches to 2 cm, patent or reflexed, the flowers ± sessile. Petals 4, c. 16 mm long, alternative, white, glabrous without except sometimes pubescent near apex. Staminal tube c. 14 mm long, glabrous or with spreading hairs near base within, margin truncate to very shallowly lobed; anthers 8 or 9, 1.5–2.5 mm long, locellate, glabrous. Ovary small (female flowers unknown); style densely pubescent in proximal half; stylehead c. 1 mm diam. Capsule c. 3.2 cm diam., 4-locular. sparsely pubescent. Seeds c. 2 cm long, ellipsoid; aril on adaxial surface.

Distribution

New Britain present
Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain).

Citation

P.F. Stevens 1978: p. 151. – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. t. 73
Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. 331.