Semecarpus longifolius

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Description

Tree up to 20 m high and 30 cm Ø, rarely small and unbranched up to 5 m high. Bark dark brown, finely fissured. Leaves spaced, spiral, coriaceous, oblanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, (18½-)34-85(-125) by (4½-)8½-21(-28) cm, glabrous on both surfaces; Flowers white. Flowerbuds subglobose. Petals valvate, elliptic or ovate-oblong, 4-5 by 2 mm, with c. 8 longitudinal veins, glabrous. Stamens 3½-5mm; Panicles cauliflorous, axillary, sometimes terminal, up to 34 cm long, puberulous, glabrescent; Ovary subglobose, c. 2 mm Ø, glabrous or sparsely pubescent;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Buru present, E. & Lanyu present, E. Java present, Halmaheira present, Kabaena present, Lamangiso present, Lesser Sunda Is present, Luzon present, Malili present, Mangoli present, Matana Lake present, Mindanao present, Oriental Mindoro present, Pangkadjene present, Roti present, Saleijer Is present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Sula Is present, Tangkil present, Timor present, Tukang Besi present, Wangiwangi present

Formosa (E. & Lanyu) and Malesia; Philippines (Luzon, Oriental Mindoro, Mindanao), Celebes (Malili, Matana Lake, Wangiwangi, Lamangiso, Pangkadjene; Kabaena, Tukang Besi, Saleijer Is.), and Moluccas (Sula Is.: Mangoli; Halmaheira, Buru). E. Java (Tangkil, once coll.), Lesser Sunda Is. (Timor: Roti). .
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. sub n. VIII-E-20a.

Citation

VIDAL 1918: Sp. Blanc.: 21

VIDAL 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 474

BROWN 1950: p. 347. – In: Useful Pl. Philip.: f. 169

Ll 1953 – In: Pac. Sc.: 183

Merr. 1906 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Suppl. 85

KANEH. 1936: Form. Trees, rev. ed: 367: f. 322

Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 627

Merr. 1903 – In: Bull. For. Bur. Philip.: 33

PERK. 1904: Fragm. Fl. Philip.: 26

Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 474

Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 473

F.-VILL. 1883: Nov. App.: 350

LIU 1962: p. 945. – In: Ill. Pl. Taiwan: f. 780

Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. 3Phan. 4: 496

VIDAL 1904 – In: Publ. Gov. Lab. Philip.: 5

LI 1963: Woody Fl. Taiwan: 451: f. 175