Nothapodytes nimmoniana
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Description
Tree or treelet, (5-)10-15m, 10-20 cm Ø.
Branchlets conspicuously angled, early covered with straw cork (wrinkled in dry specimens), large leaf-scars, youngest parts laxly to densely covered with yellowish appressed ± substrigose or more softer hairs as are the petioles, the undersurface of the leaves, the inflorescences and the fruit, the tomentum however, variable in density or fading early.
Leaves variably elliptic-ovate to -oblong, apex short-acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, unequal, membranous (and subglabrous in the Philippines), or chartaceous (and tomen-tulose beneath in Sumatra), 9-22 by 4-12 cm, nerves (5-)6-10(-12) pairs rather steeply curved-ascendent, raised beneath, reticulation ± ob-scure;
Petals oblong-linear, subacuminate, white, densely to more sparsely hairy within, 4-5(-6) by c. 1.5 mm.
Ovary ovoid to pear-shaped, hirsute, gradually narrowed to the stouter or more slender, short or up to 3 mm elongate style, which sometimes is completely glabrous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Assam (Assam present); Philippines (Philippines present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Cambodge present, Ceylon present, Ilocos Norte present, Isabela Prov present, Lan Yu I present, Mt Sago near Pajakumbuh present, N. Luzon present, S. India present, SE. of Formosa present, W. Sumatra present, Yaeyama group present
S. India, Ceylon, Assam, Burma, Cambodge, Thailand, Lan Yu I. (SE. of Formosa), Ryu Kyu Is. (Yaeyama group); in Malesia: W. Sumatra (once on Mt Sago near Pajakumbuh), Philippines (N. Luzon: Ilocos Norte&Isabela Prov.). .