Sarcotheca rubrinervis

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Sarcotheca rubrinervis

Description

Shrub or tree, up to 19 m, bole up to 10 m, 30 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, 5-18½ by 1¾-7 cm, oblong to lanceolate, glabrous, acute to caudate, base obtuse to rounded, beneath not or slightly glaucous; Sepals 1⅔-2¾ by 1-1½ mm, ovate to lanceolate, acute to emarginate. Petals 3¾-5½ by 1-1½ mm, lanceolate, rounded to emarginate, pale red to red, occasionally white, apex usually darker, claw ⅔-1 mm. Panicles 1-2 together, elongated, lax, pendulous, rusty-puberulous, 7-38½ cm; Fruit 6-10 by 5-10 mm, subglobose, rounded, glabrescent, glaucous to glossy, pink to bright red; Seeds up to 6% by 5 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, E. Borneo present, from Tawao to Balikpapan present
Malesia: E. Borneo (from Tawao to Balikpapan).

Notes

Sometimes difficult to distinguish from S. glauca (see there).

Citation

KNUTH 1930 – In: Pfl. R.: 425
VELDKAMP 1967: p. 539. – In: Blumea: f. 4d-e.
KNUTH 1930 – In: Pfl. R.: 421