Sarcotheca glomerula

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Sarcotheca glomerula

Description

Shrub or small tree, up to 9 m, 8 cm ø. Leaves unifoliolate, (6-)11½-28 by (2¼-)4-9 cm, pergamentacebus to subcoriaceous, glabrous, oblong to lanceolate, margins ± parallel, contractedly acute to cuspidate, base broadly truncate to emarginate, not glaucous; Flowers in few-flowered fascicles. Sepals 1¼-1½ by 1¼-1½ mm, broadly ovate, rounded to obtuse. Petals 6-8½ by 1¾-2⅓ mm, lanceolate-oblong to obovate-lanceolate, rounded, red to crimson, tube lighter. Panicles subterminal or axillary, 1-few together, ± erect, glabrous, stout, 4-19 cm; Fruit 8-16 by 5-10 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid, acute to acuminate, recurved, glabrous, red; Seeds 10 by 4 mm;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present)
Malesia: Malay Peninsula.

Citation

Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 334