Crudia dewitii
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Description
Tree to 30 m high; buttresses straight; branchlets slender, smooth, grey, minutely adpressed hairy.
Leaves 2- (or 1 ^folio- late; petiole very short, slender, glabrous, glossy, 4-15 mm, ending in a subulate tip (c. 3 mm long).
Stipules free, narrowly lanceolate, c. 2 mm long.
Inflorescences in upper axils or terminal on lateral shoots, up to 2.5 cm long, often with many fasciculate, linear, bud scales or bracts, the rachis slightly puberulous; bracts and bracteoles minute, caducous; pedicels very short or almost absent.
Flower buds very young, c. 2 mm long.
Seeds slightly reni- form, c. 3.5 by 5 cm, flat, reddish brown.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Gulf Prov. present, Irian Jaya: Mamberamo R. present, Nggela & Malaita present
Solomon Islands (Nggela & Malaita); in Malesia: New Guinea (Irian Jaya: Mamberamo R.), Papua New Guinea (Gulf Prov.).