Schizomeria carrii

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Schizomeria carrii

Description

Trees up to 30 m high, buttresses absent. Leaves with petiole 0.3-0.7 cm and blade subcoriaceous to coriaceous, (3-)3.5-6(-9.3) by (1.7-)2-4(-5.3) cm, elliptic, ovate or oblong-elliptic, with the base obtuse or broadly acute and the apex obtuse or rounded; Stipules narrowly triangular to ovate, 5-8 mm long. Inflorescence terminal; Flowers bisexual, 5-8 mm diameter, 5-merous (except for gynoecium); Fruit ± spherical, somewhat irregular, up to c. 1.6 by 1.6 cm but perhaps not yet fully mature;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Owen Stanley Mountains of Papua New Guinea, from Myola and Alola in the central part of the range and Mts Dayman and Suckling in the southeast present
Malesia: Owen Stanley Mountains of Papua New Guinea, from Myola and Alola in the central part of the range and Mts Dayman and Suckling in the southeast.

Ecology

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Morphology

The branching pattern and rather persistent reddish brown indumentum are distinctive.