Archidendron aruense

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Archidendron aruense

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Description

Shrub, treelet or small tree to 10 m high. Branchlets terete, minutely puberulous or glabrous. Leaves: Stipules linear, falcate, acute, (0.8-)2-3.5 cm, minutely puberulous, late caducous. Inflorescences on the older wood, rarely at the leaf-axils, consisting of unbranched, shortly pedunculate racemes issuing from short-shoots at the axils of old leaf-scars; Flowers usually pentamerous, male or female, or rarely bisexual. Stamens white to light yellow, 30-45 mm, tube shorter than or longer than the corolla-tube. Ovaries 4-8(-14), sessile, glabrous. Seeds bluish or black, ellipsoid, c. 10-14 by 6-8 by 5-7 mm.

Distribution

Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present
Malesia: New Guinea, Aru Is.

Notes

The variation in leaflet-form has been described by Nielsen (I.c.: 87).

Citation

Kosterm. 1954 – In: Reinwardtia: 24
De Wit 1942 – In: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg: 268
K. Schum. & Lauterb. 1952 – In: Reinwardtia: 85
Harms 1952 – In: Reinwardtia: 86
Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Legum.: 241
Nielsen 1984: p. 87. – In: Opera Bot.: f. 56, 58
Verdc. 1979: Manual New Guin. Legum.: 230
De Wit 1942 – In: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg: 267
De Wit 1952 – In: Reinwardtia: 75