Celtis latifolia
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Description
Tree up to 35 m, 80 cm ø.
Bark smooth to finely fissured, pustulate-lenticellate, light-brown to grey-brown.
Leaves thick-coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, especially on midrib and nerves, broadly ovate to elliptic-orbicular, (8-)15-18(-25) by (6-)8-12(-18) cm, index 1½-2½;
Stipules peltately attached, overlapping, thick, ovate-acute, c. 10 by 5 mm.
Inflorescence ♂ or ♂ ⚥, axillary or borne on the lower part of the new shoot, 10-30-flowered, including the bracts densely yellowish-brown appressed-hairy;
Flowers 5-merous.
Fruit ovoid, faintly 4-5-angular, glabrous, 1½-2½ by 1-1¾ cm, exocarp occasionally lenticellate, up to 2 mm Ø, turning to orange or deep-red when mature.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Morotai present, New Britain present, Palawan present, Sepik and Morobe Districts present, Solomons present, Tidore present, in West very common in the vicinity of Manokwari and Hollandia present
Solomons (very common); in Malesia: Philippines (Palawan), Moluccas (Morotai, Tidore), and New Guinea (in West very common in the vicinity of Manokwari and Hollandia; in East in Sepik and Morobe Districts; New Britain).