Trimenia papuana
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Description
Shrub or tree up to 20 m or more high;
Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 2-1.25 by 0.7-3.5 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate or acute, margin serrate or entire, yellowish brown when young, green at maturity becoming reddish, nerves numerous (c. 10-20 pairs), villous when young, becoming ± glabrous except for the midrib and nerves;
Inflorescence axillary and terminal, paniculate, shorter than the subtending leaf, c. 6.5 by 5.5 cm, peduncle up to 15 mm long, villous at first.
Flowers uni- or bisexual, up to 4 by 2 mm, pedicel c. 1 mm long, villous;
Stamens 9-25, c. 2-3.5 mm long, filament slender, c. 1 mm long, anthers to 2 mm long, white, pinkish white or cream at maturity, connective produced.
Seed ovoid, c. 4 by 3 mm, smooth.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Batjan present, Central Celebes present, Ceram present
Malesia: Central Celebes, Moluccas (Ceram, Batjan), and throughout New Guinea. .