Myristica quercicarpa

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Myristica quercicarpa

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Description

Tree 20-40 m. Leaves thinly chartaceous, elliptic- or obovate-oblong, 15-21 by 4.5-10 cm, base cuneate, rounded, or subcordate, apex acute-acuminate; Inflorescences (from infructes-cences) of the Knema-type: Male and female flowers not known. Fruits: subsessile, single or 2-4 in a cluster, acorn-shaped, about as broad as long or broader than long, ± broadly ovoid, 1.3-2.3 by 1.8-2.7 cm, apex (broadly) rounded with short pointed tip, base broadly truncate, flat, or depressed, hairs dark (yellow-)brown, floccose, 0.5-1 mm long;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Milne Bay Prov endemic, Northern Prov endemic, Papua New Guinea present

Malesia: Papua New Guinea (endemic to Northern Prov. and Milne Bay Prov.).

Morphology

Known only from fruiting specimens. The indumentum of the lower leaf surface with long, emergent hairs, rather than only a thin felt-like covering, makes the species quite distinguishable from the M. fatua-species group, even in the sterile state.

Citation

Foreman 1974 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral. p 37

J.Sinclair 1978 – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. p 196