Jagera javanica subsp. javanica
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Description
Not or sometimes sparsely branched pachycaulous tree, up to c. 12, rarely to 25 m high, dbh up to 20(-50) cm, sometimes with low buttresses;
Leaves mostly whorled, 13-40-jugate, 35-120 cm long;
Inflorescences up to 1 m long, widely laxly branched, many-flowered, the flowers in nearly sessile, compact, few-flowered dichasia or in compact monochasia, densely hairy;
Sepals 1-1.8 by 0.8-1.5 mm.
Petals ovate to obovate, 1-2 by 0.6-1.5 mm, inside with 2 scales or sometimes with 2 auricles.
Stamens:
Fruits obovoid to globular, 2.5 by 2 cm, pericarp hard, c. 2 mm thick.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present
Malesia: Moluccas and New Guinea.
Notes
1. Unfortunately, the type material is labelled 'Java', hence Blume's specific epithet 'javanica'. Later on he realized that this material came from the Bogor Botanic Garden and had been introduced from the Moluccas (see Blume 1847).
2. Several characters show rather wide variation. Forma, fulvinervis shows the extremes of some mostly independently varying characters. The density of the indumentum is especially variable; the most glabrous forms occur in the Moluccas, but not all Moluccan collections are glabrous.
2. Several characters show rather wide variation. Forma, fulvinervis shows the extremes of some mostly independently varying characters. The density of the indumentum is especially variable; the most glabrous forms occur in the Moluccas, but not all Moluccan collections are glabrous.