Parasponia rugosa
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Description
Shrub or medium-sized tree, up to 20 m, 30 cm ø, with spreading branches.
Bark smooth, grey-brown;
Branchlets densely, silvery, appressed, long-hairy, subglab-rescent.
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, (7-)8-10(-12) by (2-)2 ½ -3 ½ (-5) cm (index 2 ½ -3), broadest at or below the middle, thick-coriaceous;
Stipules ovate-lanceolate, (6-)8(-10) by 2-3 mm.
Inflorescences ♂ or ♂♀, 10-50-flowered, densely silvery appressed-hairy, at anthesis condensed, axes c. ½-l½ cm long, 1-2 mm ø;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Banda present, East Java present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Leyte present, Lombok present, Luzon present, Menado present, Mindanao present, Morobe Distr present, Mts Kelud & Lamongan present, New Britain present, Ternate present, Tondano present, W. & E. Highlands present, near Makassar present
Malesia: East Java (Mts Kelud & Lamongan), Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali, Lombok), Philippines (Luzon, Leyte, Mindanao), Celebes (near Makassar; Tondano, Menado), Moluccas (Ternate, Banda), New Guinea (W. & E. Highlands and Morobe Distr., incl. New Britain). .