Description
Tree, 4-26(-33) m tall, 8-60 cm diam.
Juvenile and adult shade leaves linear, 11-22 by 2-2.4 cm, narrowing abruptly to an acuminate apex and at the base to a 4-10 mm petiole;
Seed with its covering 11-13 by 9-10 mm, slightly crested.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, New Britain present
Malesia: New Guinea and New Britain. .
Notes
Leaves in the type collection are at the short and broad extremes for the species. Leaves in two examples were found to have two large additional vascular resin canals and one of these also had a continuous upper hypoderm.
Citation
DE LAUB. 1980 – In: Blumea: 140
GAUSSEN 1976: p. 173. – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss.: t. 827
PILGER 1926 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 13: 248
GAUSSEN 1976: p. 171. – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss.: t. 826
WASSCHER 1941 – In: Blumea: 456
N.E.GRAY 1958 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 447
