Parinari nonda

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Parinari nonda

Description

Trees to 15 m tall, without buttresses, the young branches sparsely puberulous, soon glabrous, with small prominulous lenticels. Leaves chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, oblong, 4-11 by 1.8-4.2 cm, glabrous above, with stomatal crypts filled with lanate pubescence beneath, rounded to acute (or rarely bluntly acuminate) at apex, subcuneate at base; Stipules lanceolate, membraneous, tomentellous, to 5 mm long, very early caducous. Inflorescence of spreading terminal and subterminal panicles, 5-11 cm long, the rachis and branches rather sparsely grey-brown tomentellous; Petals 5, white, acute. Ovary villous. Fruit ovoid, epicarp sparingly lenticellate.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea (Irian Jaya present), Australasia: Northern Territory (Northern Territory present); Queensland (Queensland present), southern extreme of Papua New Guinea present
Australia (Queensland and Northern Territory) and in Malesia: southern extreme of Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. .

Citation

KOSTERM. 1965: p. 170. – In: Reinwardtia: f. 11a
BANKS & SOL. 1900 – In: Bot. Cook's Voy.: t. 92
BAILEY 1900 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 524
PULLE 1910 – In: Nova Guinea, Bot.: 367
Benth. 1913: Compreh. Cat. Queensl. Pl.: 167