Celtis rigescens

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Celtis rigescens

Description

Large tree up to 45 m, 1 m ø. Bark grey-brown, smooth, finely fissured to pustulate and lenticellate. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 4-5 by 1-1½ mm. Inflorescence ♂ or ⚥ or rarely mixed, 1½-5 cm long; Fruit ellipsoid, faintly 5-angular, c. 15 by 10 mm, appressed-pubescent, glabrescent;

Distribution

Anambas Is present, Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present, Bantam present, Bum present, Central & S. Sumatra present, Ceram present, E. Borneo present, Johore present, Mina-hasa present, Morotai present, NE. Celebes present, New Britain present, Pahang present, Perak present, Selangor present, Solomons present, Sula present, W. Java present, W. Kutei present
Solomons (common); in Malesia: New Guinea (incl. New Britain, common), Moluccas (Ceram, Bum, Sula, Morotai), NE. Celebes (Mina-hasa), E. Borneo (W. Kutei), W. Java (Bantam), Central & S. Sumatra, Anambas Is., and Malaya (Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Johore).

Notes

Sterile specimens, especially those with young leaves only, may easily be mistaken as belonging to Grewia or Microcos (Tiliaceae) or to Ziziphus angustifolius (Bl.) HATUS.

Citation

SOEPADMO 1973 – In: Whitmore, Tree Fl.Mal. 2: 416
LAUT. 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 311
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 32