Chisocheton stellatus

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Chisocheton stellatus

Description

Tree to 30 m, bole to 60 cm diam. Bark brown, smooth to flaking; inner bark brown to yellowish; sapwood white to straw. Leaves to 30 cm, to 9-jugate, pseudogemmulate; petiole 8–15 cm. Petals 5 (6), 4–5.5 by 0.7–1 mm, oblong-ligulate, whitish to yellow-green, densely pubescent without, valvate. Staminal tube pubescent without save at both ends and within a little below anthers, margin 5- (or 6-)lobed, lobes 1–1.2 mm long, retuse; anthers 5 (6), 0.8–1 mm long, scarcely locellate, connective pilose. Ovary 2-locular, densely pubescent; style ± glabrous; stylehead 0.4 mm diam.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, Northern New Guinea present
Malesia: northern New Guinea.

Citation

Mabb. 1979 – In: Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. 371.
P.F. Stevens 1978: p. 166. – In: Handb. Fl. Papua New Guinea. t. 80