Sarcotheca macrophylla

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Sarcotheca macrophylla

Description

Shrub or tree, up to 15 m, 10 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, (5-)16-28 by 6-10 cm, oblong to oblanceolate, margins ± parallel, abruptly acuminate to cuspidate, base truncate to emarginate, subcoriaceous, above glabrous, beneath puberulous on the veins, sometimes subglaucous; Sepals 1¼-2½ by 1-1¾ mm, obovate to ovate, rounded to obtuse. Petals dark red, 3¼-5 by 1-1¾ mm, obovate-oblong to -lanceolate, obtuse to emarginate, claw ¼-½ mm. Panicles 1-4 together, slender, lax, 12-85 cm, pendulous, brown-pu-berulous; Fruit 6-11 by 5-8 mm, subglobose, rounded, glabrescent, shiny, dark red; Seeds up to 9 by 4 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present), Indonesian Borneo present, Marop present
Malesia: Borneo (Indonesian Borneo; Sarawak: Marop).

Notes

BLUME cited this species also to occur in Sumatra, but this seems to be erroneous.
It has been confused with Connaropsis macrophylla KING = S. glomerula.

Citation

BAILLON 1873 – In: Adansonia: 364
Miq. 1860: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 162
Blume 1874 – In: Hist. Pl.: 26, 47
VELDKAMP 1967: p. 541. – In: Blumea: f. 5a-b.
HALL.f. 1917 – In: Beih. Bot. Centralbl.: 29
KNUTH 1930: p. 424. – In: Pfl. R.: pro spec. Born.
Miq. 1870: Fl. Arch. Ind. Ill: 70: t. 30