Sarcopteryx squamosa
Content
Description
(Shrub to) tree, 2-25 m high, dbh up to 30 cm;
Branchlets sericeous when young;
Leaves l-4(-5)-jugate;
Inflorescences in upper leaf axils and pseudoter- minal, rather slender, 0.8-2 mm thick, sericeous, up to "25.5 cm long, usually with a few up to 11.4 cm long branches;
Flowers 2.5-5.2 mm in diam, fragrant.
Sepals deltate to ovate, 0.7-1.7 by 0.7-1.8 mm, sericeous, pale green to yellowish brown, Peta/sobovate, apex truncate, frayed, white;
Fruits 1.2-2.1 cm high by 1-2.2 cm broad,smooth, glabrescent, purplish red, stipe low, 3-6.5mm high, lobes with 1-3 mm broad wings;
Seeds obovoid, 5.5-10 by 3.7-6 mm, brown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present), N Irian Jaya present, mainly in the coastal provinces present
Malesia: Moluccas, N Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea (mainly in the coastal provinces).
Citation
Radlk. 1879 – In: Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. CI. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München: 544, 659
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1234
Radlk. 1879 – In: Sitzungsber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München: 544,659
Roxb. 1832 – In: Fl. Ind.: 282
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1233
Welzen 1991: p. 101. – In: Blumea: f. lb, 5, map 2
Radlk. 1879: Sapind. Holl.-Ind.: 19,57,97
Streimann 1983: Pl. Upper Watut Watershed: 170
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1234