Gomphandra montana
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Description
Shrubby treelet or tree, 3-20 m, up to 25 cm ø;
Branchlets appressedly hairy at tips.
Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, apex short-acuminate to sub-caudate (2-3 cm), tip acutish, base attenuate, thin-coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly short-hairy initially and early glabrescent beneath, dark to olivaceous-brown, dull and often minutely tubercled above, paler and usually more greenish-olivaceous beneath in dry specimens, (8-) 10-16(-18) by (3.5-)4-6(rarely -8) cm, nerves 5-6(-7) rather straight ascending pairs, raised beneath, no reticulation;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Melanesia present, New Britain present, New Ireland present, Santa Cruz group present, Solomon Is present
Melanesia (New Britain, New Ireland, Solomon Is. and Santa Cruz Group); in Malesia: New Guinea.