Chisocheton ceramicus
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Description
Tree to 30 m; bole to 40 cm diam., buttresses to 3 m tall, 2 m out.
Bark dippled, lenticellate, dark brown, tardily white-laticiferous; inner bark dark red-brown; sapwood yellow.
Leaves to 1.5 m, pseudogemmulate, up to 17-jugate; petiole 10–15 cm; rachis 2.5–6(–11) mm diam., terete to angled.
Petals (4) 5 (6), 13–19 by 2–3 mm, pinkish, valvate.
Staminal tube sericeous except at both ends, occasionally subglabrous without, margin (4–)5(–8)-lobed, lobes to 4 mm long, ± truncate; anthers (4) 5 or 6 (9), 2.8–3.8 mm long, locellate.
Ovary 2- or 3-locular; style densely pubescent except at apex; stylehead shortly cylindrical.
Capsule to 3.2 cm long, 4.5 cm diam., subglobose, velutinous, fleshy, orange-red, stipe to 1.5 cm long; pericarp thick, spongy, with 2 strong and 2 faint sutures, dehiscing along lines of first, latex white to colourless.
Seeds 1 or 2, shining pale orange; sarcotesta with 1.5 mm hole near micropyle; cotyledons collateral.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Bum present, Ceram present, Morotai present, New Britain present
Vietnam, Thailand; Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Moluccas (Morotai, Bum, Ceram), New Guinea, New Britain
Citation
Corner 1976 – In: Seeds Dicots: t. 383, right.
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 370
Adelb. 1948: Blumea: 319
Hô 1992 – In: 111. Fl. Vietnam: 493.
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 443
Burkill & Hend. 1925 – In: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl.: 356.
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 367
P.F. Stevens 1975 – In: Contr. Herb. Austral.: 9
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 389
Briq. 1935 – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: 76.
Briq. 1935 – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: 67
Backer 1911: Schoolfl. Java: 209
Meijer 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. Sabah: 78.
Elmer 1937 – In: LeaFl. Philipp. Bot.: 3345
Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc.: 320
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 124
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 234
Heine 1951 – In: Feddes Rep.: 230.
P.F. Stevens 1978: p. 139. – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea: t. 68
Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot.: 361
Johns 1976 – In: Comm. For. Trees Papua New Guinea: 210, 217
Pellegr. 1911 – In: Fl. Indo-Chine: 740
Corner 1976 – In: Seeds Dicots: 188
Briq. 1935 – In: Mém. Inst. Nat. Genev.: 66.
Koord. 1913 – In: Atlas: t. 166