Brackenridgea hookeri
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Description
Tree, up to 33 m, 1 m ø.
Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 7½-20 by 2½-6 cm, obtuse to acute, sometimes acuminate at apex, acute, often ± tapering at base, margin entire, ± acicular denticulate in young treelets;
Inflorescences terminal, made up of many-flowered shortened, sessile cymes, flowering successively or simultaneously, the rachis often not growing on vegetatively after flowering;
Sepals ovate to obovate, 4-5 by 1½-2 mm.
Petals ovate to obovate, 3½-5 by 1½-1¾ mm.
Ovaries c. 0.7 by 0.5 mm;
Fruits up to 6.5 by 5½ mm.
Distribution
Andamans present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ko Chang present, NE. Gulf of Thailand present
India: Andamans, and Thailand: Ko Chang (NE. Gulf of Thailand); in Malesia: Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
Citation
BURK. 1935 – In: Dict. p 1615
FURTADO 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing. p 182
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen. p 367
A. GRAY 1970 – In: Fl. Thail. p 27
Miq. 1859: p. 675. – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. err. ‘G. glaberrima PLANCH.’
King 1893 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 233
BENN. 1875 – In: Hook.f., Fl. Br. Ind. 1. p 525
KANIS 1968 – In: Blumea. p 45
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen. p 366