Filicium decipiens
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Description
Trees.
Leaves alternate, paripinnate, 5-many-jugate, rachis (broadly) winged.
Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal panicles.
Flowers unisexual.
Sepals 5, equal, ovate, ciliate, with scale hairs outside.
Petals 5, elliptic, about as large as sepals, ciliate;
Stamens 5, glabrous, exserted in male flowers, anthers not opening in female flowers.
Ovary compressed-globose, finely hairy at base, 2-locular, rudimentary in male flowers;
Fruit a drupe, smooth, glabrous, thin-walled.
Seeds without fleshy structure.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa cultivated); Lesser Sunda Is. cultivated; Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka), Pantropical cultivated, S India
Indigenous in S India and Sri Lanka, but now a pantropical ornamental. In Malesia locally cultivated as an ornamental (e.g. street tree) in Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.