Gironniera rhamnifolia

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Gironniera rhamnifolia

Description

Shrub to medium-sized tree, up to 25 m, 40 cm ø. Bark smooth, pale grey-brown. Branchlets initially densely set with simple, yellowish-brown, soft, erect hairs, glabrescent. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, glabrous, elliptic-lanceolate or rarely ovate-elliptic, (5-)8-15(-17) by (2-)4-6(-8) cm, index 2½-3½; Inflorescences ♂ or ♀, axillary, including the bracts sparsely short, yellowish-brown appressed-pubescent; Fruit ± glabrous, c. 1 by 6 by 3 mm, short-beaked.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Biak present, Japen present, Morotai present, N. Moluccas present, Polima Is present
Malesia: N. Moluccas (Morotai), New Guinea (incl. Biak, Japen, and Polima Is.).

Citation

LAUT. 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 326
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 206
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 223