Pseudobotrys dorae

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Pseudobotrys dorae

Description

Treelet or shrub, 1.5-6 m, glabrous; Branchlets terete, striate, slender. Leaves lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong, apex gradually more shortly or long acuminate, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate to rounded, coriaceous, of a dull olivaceous-green colour and a minutelytubercledundersurface when dry, greenish yellowish in fresh specimens, entire, 16-32(-44) by 5-14(-18) cm, midrib slightly raised above, strongly so beneath, nerves (6-)8-10(-12) pairs, lower ones curved, upper ones generally more straight, faintly inarching before the edge, hardly raised or obscure above, slightly prominent beneath, veins lax, generally rather inconspicuous; Flowers in short fascicles or corymbs from swollen parts of the trunk (occasionally also from the axils of leaves?). Sepals subovate, blunt, dull purple, c. 3 mm. Petals linear, blunt, thin, connate irregularly in the lower part, i.e. early splitting from top after the bud stage, spreading or recurved at full anthesis, white all over, or purplish at tube, 2.8-3.2 cm by 2-2.5 mm. Ovary 3-4 mm, densely brownish-pubescent; Seed 1.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Central Distr present, Morobe present, Northern Distr present
Malesia: New Guinea (Morobe, Central Distr. and Northern Distr.). .

Citation

SLEUM. 1940 – In: Notizbl. Berl.-Dahl. p 235
MOESER 1942: p. 360. – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 20 b. f. 101, A & B
MOESER 1969 – In: Blumea. p 249