Chisocheton erythrocarpus
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Description
Tree to 25 m; bole to 25 cm diam., buttresses to 1 m tall and out, 10 cm thick.
Bark smooth to cracking, dark grey to chocolate brown; inner bark reddish brown; wood cream.
Leaves to 36 cm, pseudogemmulate, to 6-jugate; petiole 5–8 cm.
Petals 5 or 6, 9–13 by 3–3.5 mm, narrowly boat-shaped, creamy white, valvate, separating in sicco, fleshy, adpressed sericeous without, glabrous within.
Staminal tube sericeous without except at base and on lobes, pubescent similarly within, margin with 5 or 6 teeth c. 2.5 mm long, weakly lobcd; anthers c. 3 mm long, locellate, subsessile, basifixed at notches between lobes.
Capsule to 6 cm diam., globose, peach-like, minutely beaked, minutely tomentose, yellow when immature, blood-red when ripe; pericarp with white latex.
Seeds 2, c. 2.5 cm long, somewhat flattened; sarcotesta thick, orange-red.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present), Mindanao present, N and E Borneo present, Palawan present, Samar present
Malesia: Malay Peninsula, N and E Borneo, Philippines (Mindanao, Samar, Palawan)
Citation
Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot.: 368
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC., Monogr. Phan. 1: 534
Mabb. 1982 – In: Mal. For.: 235
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 388
Ridley 1900 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 59:
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 31
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 235.