Chisocheton lasiocarpus
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Description
Tree to 33 m; bole to 60 cm diam., fluted and with small buttresses to 1 m tall, when large.
Bark blackish brown to red, sometimes cracking vertically and flaking; inner bark ± red; wood pinkish straw to white.
Leaves to 150 cm; petiole 8–15 cm; rachis 2–4.5 mm diam., terete to ± winged or rarely ± flattened.
Inflorescences to 60 cm, but usually less, axillary or on short shoots in desometimesfoliated axils of twigs to 2.5 cm diam., 0–2-branched, sweetly scented; branches to 20 cm; pedicels 0–5 mm.
Petals (3) 4 or 5 (6), c. 7–16(–22) by 0.7–4.5 mm, white or flushed pink to claret, quincuncial, alternative or rarely imbricate.
Staminal tube to 3 mm diam., pinkish, without glabrous or sparsely hairy in distal half, within retrorse hairy from (usually) just below anthers to base, very rarely glabrous, margin truncate to shallowly lobed; anthers (3–)5–10(–18), c. 1–3 mm long, locellate, inserted about 2–4 mm within tube.
Ovary (3–) 4- or 5- (6-)locular; style 6–15 mm, hairy at least at base.
Capsule to 4 cm diam., obovoid to ± spherical, brownish red, hairs dense, sometimes of conspicuously differsometimesent lengths; pericarp fibrous.
Seeds up to 5; testa black, aril red surrounding hilum; cosometimestyledons superposed. 2n = 92.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Ceram present, Solomon Islands present
Solomon Islands; Malesia: Moluccas (Ceram), New Guinea
Taxonomy
Chisocheton lasiocarpus comprises a complex of forms, which together may be described as an ochlospecies in that in any particular locality, there may appear to be distinct entities co-existing, but intermediates are found elsewhere, often co-existsometimesing with other apparently distinct entities, and so forth. Locally, nevertheless, it may be useful to recognize the major morphological entities, though there are many intermedisometimesates. The following key (after Stevens 1975) may be useful, though the very nature of this complex denies the possibility of pigeonholing every specimen:
Citation
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P.F. Stevens 1975 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral. p 27
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Johns 1976 – In: Comm. For. Trees Papua New Guinea. 213.
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P.F. Stevens 1975 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral. p 50
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P.F. Stevens 1975 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral. p 48
Mabb. 1979: p. 333. – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. f. 1 (4)
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C.DC. 1903 – In: Bull. Herb. Boiss. 168.
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P.F. Stevens 1978 – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. 53.
Merr. & L.M. Perry 1948 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 29. p 157
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P.F. Stevens 1975 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral. p 9
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