Wrightia candollei

Primary tabs

Wrightia candollei

Description

Small trees. Branchlets sparsely to densely puberulent. Leaves: Inflorescence 2.5-3.5 cm long, often with leafy bracts; Sepals ovate, 1.1-4 by 1.8-4.5 mm, 0.3-1.1 times as long as wide, apex rounded, sparsely pubescent, ciliate, colleters large in sinuses. Stamens inserted at 0.7-0.8 of tube length from base, exserted from tube; Fruit of a single follicle that splits lengthways at maturity as each of the 2 component follicles dehisces, 20.5-22 by 1.4-2.2 cm, glabrous.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present)
Malesia: Philippines.

Citation

D.J. Middleton 2005 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot.: 162
Tsiang 1939 – In: Sunyatsenia: 52