Chisocheton sect. Clemensia

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Chisocheton sect. Clemensia

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Description

Pachycaul trees and treelets to 28 m tall, unbranched or sparsely branched. Leaves to 220 cm long, imparipinnate or pseudogemmulate. Inflorescences unbranched or sparsely branched, to 7 m long, ± flagelliform with arillate seeds, or shorter with sarcotestal seeds Calyx ± pubescent, margin truncate or variously 3- or 4-lobed. Petals (4–)5–14, (16–) 26–45 mm long, imbricate at apices. Staminal tube glabrous or sparsely pubescent without, with band of hairs below lobes and/or sparsely pubescent within up to apical quarter, margin entire to lobed; anthers 3–30, hairy or not, locellate or not. Ovary 4–6-locular; stylehead subdiscoid to capitate. Capsule to 13 cm diam., recurved, tomentose with stinging hairs. Seeds arillate or sarcotestal, never scutellar.

Distribution

western Malesia present

Seven species restricted to western Malesia

Taxonomy

The features which distinguish other sections intermingle here, so that sect. Clemensia may be considered a relict group from which the others have been derived. That is not to say, of course, that all features of this section are primitive.

Citation

Harms 1940 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19bl: 153.

Harms 1940 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19bl: 155.

Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot.: 320.