Swintonia floribunda
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Description
Tree up to 30(-45) m high and 50(-90) cm Ø, sometimes with steep plank buttresses up to 2 m high, often slightly sinuous or angular.
Bark light greyish to reddish brown, shallowly fissured.
Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, oblong or obovate-oblong, 5½-16(-25) by 2-5(-6)cm, glabrous, not papillose beneath;
Flowers light green-yellowish or white.
Petals oblong or obovate-oblong, 3½-4 by 1-2 mm, cuneate at the base, puberulous on both surfaces, sometimes glabrescent or almost glabrous outside.
Stamens 2-3½ mm;
Panicles 8-18 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent, or glabrous;
Ovary ovoid, c. ½ mm ø;
Distribution
Andaman Is present, Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Atjeh present, Burma present, E. & W. Coast present, Indragiri present, Johore present, Kedah present, Kelantan present, Langkawi present, Negri Sembilan present, Pahang present, Penang present, Riouw-Lingga Arch present, Selangor present
Burma, Andaman Is. (?), Thailand, Vietnam, and Malesia: Sumatra (Atjeh, E. & W. Coast, Indragiri, Riouw-Lingga Arch.) and Malay Peninsula (Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Selangor, Johore, Langkawi, Penang).
Citation
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mai. For. Rec.: 353
KURZ 1876 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 207
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mai. Pen.: 532
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mai. Pen.: 533
KURZ 1876 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 207
TARD. 1962: p. 110. – In: Fl. C. L. & V.: t. 4, f. 1-6
Hook.f. 1876 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 26
MARCH. 1869: Rév. Anacard.: 109 & 186