Mangifera inocarpoides

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Mangifera inocarpoides

Description

Tree up to 12 m high. Leaves subcoriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 11½-26 by 4½-7½ cm; Flowers white. Petals 4, lanceolate, 2½-4 by ½4-1½45mm; Stamens 4, 1 fertile, 1½-2 mm; Panicles terminal and sometimes also in the apical leaf-axils, pyramidal, up to 22 cm long, crowded at the apex of twigs, puberulous; Ovary obliquely subglobose, c. 1 mm ø; Seed labyrinthine.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, southern part present
Malesia: New Guinea (southern part).

Notes

M. inocarpoides is closely allied to the West Malesian M. gedebe, which has also labyrinthine seeds (VAN HEEL, l.c.).

Citation

VAN HEEL 1971 – In: Blumea: 109
DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 25