Atalaya salicifolia

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Atalaya salicifolia

Description

Treelet up to 15 m high, dbh up to 40 cm. Branchlets greyish brown, terete, rather densely minutely lenticellate, glabrous except for the sparsely appressed short-hairy tips, furthermore glabrous. Leaves 1-3-jugate (according to Blume sometimes ternate or 1-foliolate); Inflorescences paniculate, 15-25 cm long; Sepals with a broad, membranous, short-ciliate margin, outer nearly semi-orbicular, c. 2 mm diam., inner nearly orbicular, c. 3 mm diam. Petals obovate-cuneate, concave, short-clawed, c. 3 by 2.5 mm, outside sparsely hairy near the base, rather long ciliate at the base; Stamens in male flowers 3 mm long, filaments 2.5 mm long; Fruits glabrous, samarae c. 2.5 cm long, wing 1 cm wide, straight. Seeds subovoid, c. 7.5 by 4 mm.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Lesser Sunda Is. present, Australasia, Leti present, Sumba present, Sumbawa present, Timor present
Malesia: Lesser Sunda Islands (Sumbawa, Sumba, Timor, and Leti); Australia.

Notes

The petals are unequal: the two upper ones are very concave and slightly oblique and their scales are deeply bilobed, the others are slightly concave, not oblique, and have nearly orbicular scales.

Citation

Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 609
S.T. Reynolds 1981: p. 400. – In: Austrobaileya: f. 27A.
Meijer Drees 1951 – In: Comm. For. Res. Inst.: 108