Guioa truncata

Primary tabs

Guioa truncata

Description

Tree, 5-7 m high, dbh 10-15 cm; Branchlets sericeous when young; Leaves 2-3-jugate; Inflorescences axillary, branching basally to usually along the flattened, subsericeous, 4.3-15.4 cm long; Flowers c. 3 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, margin pilose, with glands, outside and inside glabrous; Petals 5, obovate, c. 2.1 by 1.4 mm, white; Stamens 8; Fruits immature.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Mindanao present
Malesia: Philippines (Mindanao).

Notes

PNH118626 (G. koelreuteria) looks like G. truncata; but its venation is not as distinct, the leaflets are narrower, and do not possess large saclike domatia. Guioa koelreuteria has at most one large sac, not several, as G. truncata usually has.

Citation

Welzen 1989: p. 292. – In: Leiden Bot. Series: f. 125
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 509
Radlk. 1913 – In: Philipp. J. Sc., Bot.: 446
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1171