Gironniera nervosa
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Description
Small to large-sized tree up to 40 m, 60 cm ø.
Bark smooth or finely fissured, grey-green to dark grey-brown, often hoop-marked and lenticellate.
Leaves thick-coriaceous, rigid, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, (6½-)10-15(-18) by (2½-)4-6 (-8) cm, broadest at the middle, index 2½-3;
Inflorescences ♂ or ♀, axillary, borne on separate shoots, including the bracts densely yellowish-brown, appressed-pubescent;
Fruit subglobose or ovoid, densely appressed-pubescent, 5-8 by 4-6 by 3-4 mm, short-beaked.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present)
Thailand; in Malesia: Malay Peninsula (incl. Singapore; common), Sumatra (rather rare), Borneo (common).
Citation
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 688
Hook.f. 1888 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 485
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 216
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 222
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 320
SOEPADMO 1973: p. 419. – In: Whitmore, Tree Fl.Mal. 2: f. 2
Bl. 1856 – In: Mus. Bot.: 74
KURZ 1877 – In: For. Fl. Burma: 469
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 206