Meliosma pinnata subsp. ferruginea

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Meliosma pinnata subsp. ferruginea

Description

Medium-sized to big tree, up to c. 42 m. Leaves 2-6(-7)-jugate; Sepals usually densely pubescent, rarely on the outside sparsely so to subglabrous. Panicles erect, spreading, lax to rather dense; Ovary partly or entirely but almost always distinctly and densely pubescent, very rarely nearly glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa presentpresent); Lesser Sunda Is. present (Bali present), Flores present, N. & Central Sumatra present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Malesia: N. & Central Sumatra, throughout Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Sumbawa, Flores, Timor), locally common, especially in Java. .

Uses

Advocated for reafforestation purposes by KOORDERS.

Notes

subsp. ferruginea is usually well recognizable by its outside pubescent sepals and petals. However, in N. Sumatra and the Lesser Sunda Islands specimens occur in which these characters are imperfectly or not developed, and they may also lack the pubescence on the ovary and may have almost glabrous leaves. They are not easily identifiable and may be confused with M. lanceolata var. lanceolata f. nervosa or with the closely related M. pinnata subsp. macrophylla and subsp. ridleyi.

Citation

BACKER & BAKH.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 145
DIETR. 1839 – In: Syn. Pl.: 103
Blume 1923 – In: Fl. Tjibodas: 157
Blume 1849 – In: Rumphia: 200
Blume 1871: Illustr.: 74
WALP. 1852 – In: Ann.: 225
Blume 1914 – In: Atlas: t. 375
NEES 1825 – In: Flora: 106
K. & V. 1903 – In: Bijdr.: 121
HASSK. 1844: Cat. Hort. Bog.: 226
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 616
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 546