Steganthera oligantha
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Description
Small to large tree, young branches slender, finely puberulous.
Leaves papyraceous, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 6-11 by 2.5-5 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, midrib and principal veins evident, reticulations rather obscure, when young covered in appressed minute hairs which persist on the midrib and sometimes on the principal veins;
Inflorescences axillary or terminal, few flowered pleiochasia, rachis, branches and bracts pubescent, rachis slender, with a long peduncle before the first branches, at flowering 4-6 cm long.
Fruiting receptacle leathery, c. 10 mm ø.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Central Prov present, Moresby Distr present, Papua New Guinea present, Sogeri region present
Malesia: Papua New Guinea (Central Prov., Moresby Distr., Sogeri region).
Notes
A large tree with slender twigs, known with certainty only from the three collections made by FORBES in 1855-56 and one recent collection from Efogi. Other collections from the same region closely match the foliage and fruit, but the male receptacles are globose. These may be hybrids with S. hirsuta. The female flowers are described as bright yellow and the fruit as black on orange stipes.