Gomphandra montana

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Gomphandra montana

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.

Uses

Wood creamy to whitish, rays prominent, no use known, apparently due to its small dimensions.

Notes

Difficult to separate from G. australiana F.v.M. in leaf and fruit characters, though certainly different in flower structure.

Citation

SLEUM. 1969 – In: Blumea: 200