Swintonia spicifera
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Description
Tree up to 36(-54) m high and 80(-100) cm Ø, occasionally ridged (ridges 250 by 20 by 3 cm).
Bark dark brown or purplish brown, dippled or fissured.
Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, rarely ovate, or oblanceolate, 5½-18(-23) by 2½-5(-6) cm, glabrous, occasionally with glabrous, dome-like domatia;
Flowers pale or greenish yellow.
Stamens 1½-2½ mm;
Panicles 6½-22 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous;
Ovary broadly ellipsoid or obovoid, c. ½ mm ø;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Johore present, Kedah present, Malacca present, Negri Sembilan present, Palembang present, Penang present, Perak present, Riouw and Lingga Arch present
Malesia: Sumatra (Palembang, Riouw and Lingga Arch.) and Malay Peninsula (Kedah, Perak, Negri Sembilan, Johore, Malacca, Penang).
Citation
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 490
Engl. 1833: p. 233. – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: t. 5, f. 20-23
MEIJER 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. F. D. Sandakan: 32
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 532
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 2111
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mai. For. Rec.: 154
Hook.f. 1892: p. 148. – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 5: f. 93
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 972