Planchonia timorensis
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Description
Trees, up to 35 m high, up to 1 m diam.;
Bark greyish brown, scaling off into small pieces.
Branchlets terete, lenticellate, smooth, sometimes striate, greyish brown, darker towards the apex, up to 6 mm thick;
Leaves:
Inflorescences racemes, glabrous, generally many-flowered, up to 12 cm long, glabrous;
Petals obovate, 4.5-6 by 2-3 cm, membranaceous, pale green.
Stamens:
Fruits smooth, subglobular, without basal neck, c. 5.5 cm diam. (fresh), obovoid to ovoid when dry, pericarp fibrous;
Seeds numerous, obliquely ovoid, angular;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present, Komodo present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present, Timor Leste present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (in particular Sumbawa, Komodo, Sumba and Timor and in Timor Leste).