Mischocarpus sundaicus
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Description
Shrub or tree, up to 10(-30) m high;
Leaves 1-3- (or 4)jugate (or simple);
Inflorescences axillary and pseudoterminal, 1.5-25 cm long, branched;
Petals 0 (up to 3 in Peninsular Malaysia), up to 1.5 mm long, elliptic to oblong, glabrous or with a few hairs near the base, inconspicuously auriculate.
Stamens (6-)8(-9), up to 4 mm long;
Fruit 7-17(-20) mm high, glabrous or very sparsely puberulous;
Seeds globose to ellipsoid, up to 7 mm long;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: India present, Australasia, S China present, SE Asia present
From India and S China through SE Asia and throughout Malesia. Absent from Australia, see note 3.
Notes
1. In a few collections, restricted to Peninsular Malaysia, petals occur. The petals strongly resemble those of M. pentapetalus and other species in the 'pentapetalus-group' (M. pentapetalus, M. triqueter, M. largifolius, M. paradoxus, M. reticulatus, and M. grandissimus).
The delimitation between M. sundaicus and M. pentapetalus is not sharp for some characters and that is why Gagnepain (Not. Syst. 13, 1947, 34, 35) suggested hybridization between these two species. Detailed studies on this problem are needed (see also below, the note under Mischocarpus prob. spec. nov.).
S.T. Reynolds (in ) reports that M. sundaicus is absent from Australia. The specimens attributed to M. sundaicus by R.W. Ham (1977) were described by her as three new species: M. australis, M. macrocarpus, and M. stip-itatis. They differ from M. sundaicus in the much-branched panicle with cymules on longer pedicels, the hairy inner surface of the fruit, the persistent broad style base, the larger bracts and dorsiventrally flattened petioles. As Australia is outside the scope of Flora Malesiana, no decision about the status of these new species has been made.
The delimitation between M. sundaicus and M. pentapetalus is not sharp for some characters and that is why Gagnepain (Not. Syst. 13, 1947, 34, 35) suggested hybridization between these two species. Detailed studies on this problem are needed (see also below, the note under Mischocarpus prob. spec. nov.).
S.T. Reynolds (in ) reports that M. sundaicus is absent from Australia. The specimens attributed to M. sundaicus by R.W. Ham (1977) were described by her as three new species: M. australis, M. macrocarpus, and M. stip-itatis. They differ from M. sundaicus in the much-branched panicle with cymules on longer pedicels, the hairy inner surface of the fruit, the persistent broad style base, the larger bracts and dorsiventrally flattened petioles. As Australia is outside the scope of Flora Malesiana, no decision about the status of these new species has been made.
Citation
R.W. Ham 1977 – In: Blumea. p 281
Adelb. 1948 – In: Blumea. p 324
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl. p 513
Radlk. 1920 – In: Bot. Jahrb. p 303
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 141
Blume 1879 – In: Sitzungsber. Math.-Phy. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. München. p 646
Gagnep. 1950: Fl. Indo-Chine. p 986
Radlk. 1879: Sapind. Holl-Ind. 12, 91
Craib 1926 – In: Fl. Siam. Enum. p 333
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 589. f. 211, 212
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 447
Burk. 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. p 1479
Vidal 1815: Phan. Cuming. 49, 105
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98. p 1299
Yap 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya. p 449
Lecomte 1912: p. 1029. – In: Fl. Indo-Chine. f. 128
Elmer 1939 – In: Leafl. Philipp. Bot. p 3809
Hiern 1875 – In: Hook. f., Fl. Br. India 1. p 678
Koord. & Valeton 1903 – In: Bijdr. Booms. Javn. p 223
Blume 1847 – In: Rumphia. p 167
Burk. 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. p 1479