Archidendron fagifolium

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Archidendron fagifolium

Description

Shrub, treelet or tree to 16 m high. Branchlets terete, grey-brown, dotted by brown lenticels, puberulous in the ultimate parts, glabrescent. Leaves: Inflorescences either clustered at the old leaf-scars or axillary at the leaves, puberulous, consisting of pedunculate glomerules aggregated into narrow panicles; Stamens white or cream, to c. 15 mm long, tube exceeding the corolla-tube. Ovary solitary, glabrous. Seeds black, glossy, ellipsoid, compressed, c. 8 by 4 mm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present)
Malesia: 3 geographically separated varieties in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines.

Citation

Hassk. 1858 – In: Retzia, ed. 2: 267
Hassk. 1847 – In: Flora: 706
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp.: 243
Koord. & Valeton 1894 – In: Bijdr.: 310
Backer & Bakh. f. 1963 – In: Fl. Java: 551