Vatica stapfiana
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Description
Medium-sized tree.
Twigs, petioles, stipules, panicles, calyx outside and ovary +- persistently densely scabrid ferruginous puberulent, leaf undersurface sparsely so or glabrescent, parts of petals exposed in bud pale brown puberulent.
Leaves 12-25 by 5-12 cm, typically elliptic-obovate, +- thickly coriaceous;
Panicle to 10 cm long, terminal or axillary, somewhat congested and irregularly branched.
Fruit subsessile or to 2 mm long pedicellate;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Peninsular Thailand present
Peninsular Thailand and in Malesia: Malaya, Sumatra.
Notes
A variable species closely related to V. umbonata, with which it appears to be undergoing local hybridisation.
Citation
Sym. 1943: p. 228. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: f. 107, 109
Burk. 1935: Dict.: 2225
Sloot. 1941 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 137
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 250
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 249
Craib 1925: Fl. Siam. Enum.: 140
Craib 1925 – In: Fl. Siam. Enum.: 140
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 136
Foxw. 1932 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 274
Burk. & Foxw. 1922 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 279
Bruhl & King 1896: p. 161. – In: Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc.: t. 194