Chisocheton diversifolius

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Chisocheton diversifolius

Description

Tree to 10 m tall. Leaves to 47 cm, at least 11-jugate; petiole c. 5 cm, weakly pubescent. Petals 4 or 5, 8 by 3 mm, linear-spathulate, two often narrower than the others, imbricate, white. Staminal tube 5- or 6-dentate, glabrous to very sparsely pubescent without, teeth retuse; anthers 5 or 6, 2 mm long, linear, locellate, glabrous, included. Ovary pubescent; style hirtellous; stylehead capitate to subdiscoid. Fruits unknown.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Lampongs present
Malesia: Sumatra (Lampongs, where it was rediscovered in 1968 by Jacobs; previously known only from Korthals’s original gathering).Sumatra (Lampongs)

Notes

Nagamasu 3575 (L) from the W slope of Barisan range E of Padang may belong here, though it is a tree 15 m tall with very broad leaflets and long inflorescences (25 cm) and pyriform fruit to 2 cm diam.

Citation

C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 538
Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot.: 358.