Vallaris glabra
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Description
Leaves:
Inflorescence 3-40-flowered, 3-10 cm long;
Sepals ovate or narrowly elliptic, 3-7 by 1.5-2.5 mm, apex acuminate, reflexed or spreading.
Stamens inserted 4-5.2 mm from corolla base, exserted for 5-7 mm;
Ovaries densely pubescent, 1-2 mm long;
Fruit of somewhat flattened follicles, 15.5-16 by 2.3-2.5 cm.
Seeds not seen.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Flores present, Java to Lesser Sunda Islands present
Malesia: Sumatra, Java to Lesser Sunda Islands (Flores). Widely cultivated elsewhere. There is one collection, Teijsmann 11802, from Pangkadjene on Celebes but it cannot be ascertained from the specimen whether this was a cultivated plant or not.
Citation
Wight 1841 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 429
Merr. 1921: Bibliogr. Enum. Born. Pl.: 502
Hook.f. 1882 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 651
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 427
Kerr 1939 – In: Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 454
King & Gamble 1907 – In: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 460
Masam. 1942: Enum. Phan. Born.: 625
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 243
Rudjiman 1982 – In: Meded. Landbouwhoogeschool Wageningen: 5
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 94