Guioa pubescens

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Guioa pubescens

Description

Tree(let), 2-25 m high, dbh 1.3-85 cm; Branchlets sericeous when young, hairs brown; Leaves (1—)2—6-jugate; Inflorescences axillary (to pseudoterminal), (unbranched to) branching basally to especially along the terete, brown sericeous, 1.4-24.2 cm long axis; Flowers 3.5-4.5 mm in diam.; Sepals 5, ovate, margin and often outside sericeous, margin with glands, inside (sub)glabrous, green to reddish; Petals 5, obovate, 1.9-3.4 by 0.7-1.8 mm, white to yellow; Stamens 8; Fruit with 1-3 well developed lobes, 1-1.5 by 1-1.9 cm, smooth (to somewhat ribbed), (very) sparsely sericeous, glabrescent, red when fresh, (reddish to) blackish when dry; Seeds globose to obovoid, 6.8-10 by 5.8-7.5 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Singapore present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bangka present, Djawa Barat present, Karimun-djawa Island present, Palawan present, W Java present, W Malaysia present, above equator present
Malesia: W Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka, W Java (Djawa Barat), Karimun-djawa Island, Borneo (above equator), Philippines (Palawan).

Uses

The wood is used as a construction timber, in spite of the fact that it is brittle and the stem too narrow for sawing planks (); however, recorded diameters indicate the opposite.

Notes

See note 3 under G. bijuga.

Citation

Radlk.: Sapind. HolL-Ind.: 10, 41
Yap 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 442
Keng 1982 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing.: 90
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 445
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 541
Radlk. 1940: Wayside Trees: 588: pl. 178
Ridley 1893 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 289
Welzen 1989: p. 272. – In: Leiden Bot. Series: f. 115, 116
Ridley 1900 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 66
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1162
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 506
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1169
Desch 1954 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 526
Radlk. 1879 – In: Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. CI. Konigl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munchen: 610
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl.: 45
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 509
Radlk. 1913 – In: Philipp. J. Sc, Bot.: 446
Koord. & Valeton 1903 – In: Bijdr. Booms. Java: 210
Radlk. – In: Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. CI. Konigl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Munchen: 543, 612
Burk. 1966: Diet. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins., ed. 2: 1134
Merr. 1921: Enum. Born.: 361
Radlk. 1913 – In: Elmer, Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 5: 1616
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 140
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 509