Schuurmansia elegans
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Description
Treelet or tree, up to 15(-30?) m, sometimes with low stiltroots.
Leaves obovate-oblong to -lanceolate, 10-30 by 2½-10 cm, rounded or somewhat acuminate at apex, ± tape-ring at base, margins ± involute, chartaceous, nerves 1-1½ mm apart;
Stipules linguiform, 1½-4 by 1½-2½ mm, sometimes shortly ciliate.
Inflorescences 10-25 cm;
Flowers bisexual, erect.
Sepals elliptic to obovate, 3-6 by 1½-4 mm.
Petals obovate, 4-8 by 2-5 mm.
Ovary subovoid, 1½-3 by 1¼-2 mm, papillate, sometimes with a few glandular-capitate hairs;
Fruit fusiform, up to 2½ by ½ cm, acuminate.
Seeds c. ¾ by ¼ mm, with c. 3 mm long, slender wings.
Distribution
Agusan present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Mindanao present
Malesia: Borneo, Philippines (Mindanao, only 1 collection of uncertain identity reported from Agusan), Celebes, Moluccas, and New Guinea.
Citation
Blume 1968 – In: Blumea. p 75
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat. p 118
KANIS 1961: p. 64. – In: Nova Guinea, Bot. f. la
Blume 1953: Pfl. Samml. Clemens Kinab. p 63
Merr. 1916 – In: Philip. J. Sc. Bot. 19
Blume 1871: p. 66. – In: Illustr. t. 29
HALL.f. 1913 – In: Rec. Trav. Bot. Neerl. p 346
Blume 1923 – In: En. Philip. p 68
HEINE 1951 – In: Fedde, Rep. 54. p 240
CAPIT. 1910 – In: Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. p 397