Lepisanthes ferruginea
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Description
Tree, up to 20 m high, dbh up to 60 cm.
Branchlets terete, 6 mm in diam., slightly ribbed, greyish to yellowish brown, when young rather densely minutely hairy, glabrescent.
Leaves (l-)2(-3)-ju-gate;
Inflorescences up to 45 cm long, ferrugineous to fulvous velvety, glabrescent;
Sepals in vivo bright green, outside fulvous-sericeous, margin glandular-ciliolate, inside glabrous, outer 2 oblong-ovate, 2.8 by 2 mm, inner 3 broadly obovate, 3.5 by 2.5 mm.
Petals obo-vate-cuneate, 4.5 by 2.8 mm, white, hardly clawed, outside in the basal half densely appressed long-hairy, the margin except for the upper ⅓ long-ciliate;
Stamens slightly exserted;
Ovary 1.5 mm, style conical, 1 mm, stigma faintly 3-lobed.
Fruits slightly 3-lobed, mostly only 1 lobe developed, this globular, c. 2.5 cm in diam., densely ferrugineous (when fresh orange to brown) velvety;
Seeds slightly flattened ellipsoid, 1.8 by 1.2 by 1 cm, testa shining, papery, hilum elliptic, 5 by 2 mm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bantam present, East Coast, Sibolangit present, Pasuruan present, Pe-rak: near G. Bubu present, Preanger present, Tioman I present
Malesia: Sumatra (once collected: East Coast, Sibolangit), Malay Peninsula (Pe-rak: near G. Bubu; Tioman I.), Java (few: Bantam, Preanger, Pasuruan).