Daphniphyllum borneense

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Daphniphyllum borneense

Description

Shrub or small tree, 2-9 m tall, clear bole 0.9-1 m in diam., crown 1.5 m wide, outer bark smooth, grey, slash outer bark green, inner bark coarse, brown like milk chocolate, sapwood whitish to yellow flush. Leaves fascicled at tip of branchlets, opposite; blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 5-10 by 2.5-4.2 cm, apex cuspidate, acuminate or mucronate, base cuneate, margins entire, coriaceous, brown above, glaucous beneath, lateral veins reticulate or in 8 pairs, elevated on both surfaces, the reticulation especially prominent on upper surface; petiole red-violet or tinged purple, 1.5-3 cm long.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Kalimantan present, Sabah present)
Malesia: North Borneo and Kalimantan.

Citation

Perumal 1996 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 158