Dysoxylum densiflorum
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Description
Tree (to 30(–45) m with clear bole to 13 m and 65 cm diam.
Bark grey-green, smooth and lenticellate to fissured or flaking, the ± rectangular flakes leaving brown patches; inner bark thin, fibrous and pinkish, red mottled, creamy yellow within; sapwood straw.
Leaves to 1.5 m, in dense terminal spirals, imparipinnate, 5–8-jugate; petiole 6–11 cm, terete to grooved adaxially proximally, swollen somewhat at base, ± finely pubescent; rachis 2–4 mm diam., terete, ± pubescent.
Flowers sometimes in sessile cymules, hyacinth-scented.
Petals 4, c. 8–11 mm long, linear-oblong, acute, imbricate, sparsely hairy without, white.
Staminal tube subglabrous without, pilose within, conspicuously 8- (or 9-)striate, white, the margin 8-lobed, lobes subtruncate, emarginate or erose; anthers 8 (or 9), c. 1 mm long, oblong-ovate, alternating with lobes.
Ovary (3- or) 4-locular, adpressed pubescent; style adpressed pubescent; stylehead discoid, yellow.
Capsule to 4 cm long, 2 cm diam., pyriform to fusiform, (3- or) 4-valved, silky grey-green hairy; pericarp soft, with white latex.
Seeds 2–4, testa black, partially enveloped in a white hilar (?) aril; the cotyledons green.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. (Bali present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Flores present, Lombok present, Zou present, l.c. present, southern Burma present
Southern Burma, Yunnan (Zou, l.c.), Thailand; MalesiaSumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Flores)
Citation
Miq. 59 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 539.
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 243
G.Don 1831 – In: Gen. Syst.: 684
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 396
Backer 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 205
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 46
G.Don 1831 – In: Gen. Syst.: 684
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 46.
C.DC 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 497
K.Heyne 1950: Nutt. Pl. Indon, ed. 3: 893
Zou 1989 – In: Acta Bot. Yunn.: 155.
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 122
M.Roem. 1846 – In: Synops. Monogr.: 102
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC, Monogr. kan. 1: 499
C.DC 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 496.
M.Roem. 1846 – In: Synops. Monogr.: 102
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins.: 885
Miq. 59 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 539.
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 440
Koord. & Valeton 1896: p. 41. – In: Bijdr. Booms. Java: incl. var. minus Koord. & Valeton (‘minor’)
Koord. 1898: Minah.: 386