Artocarpus altissimus

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Artocarpus altissimus

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Description

Tree up to 30 m tall, sometimes with buttresses, deciduous. Leaves distichous; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, brownish to whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous. stamen not exserted, anther c. 0.4 mm long;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Western present

Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra, Borneo (western).

Notes

2Fertile herbarium material is scarce and, therefore, the species description is incomplete. 1This rare species is distinguishable by the glandular margin of the lamina.

Citation

Douglas & Baas-Beck. 1947 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg: 197, 291

Burret 1926 – In: Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem: 736

F.M. Jarrett 1960 – In: J. Arnold Arbor. 41: 135