Vasilis Teodoridis:
Clusiaceae | Calophyllum
2. Calophyllum membranaceum Gardner & Champion; Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 309. 1849.
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Calophyllum spectabile Hooker & Arnott (1833); not Willdenow (1811).
Shrubs to small trees; 1-5 m tall. Young shoots tetragonous; narrowly winged. Petiole 6-10 mm; leaf blade lucid and opaque-brown on both surfaces when dry; oblong or oblong-lanceolate; 6-12 x 1.5-3.5 cm; thinly leathery; midvein raised on both surfaces; base cuneate; margin revolute; apex acute; acuminate; or caudate-acuminate. Cyme axillary and terminating short axillary shoots; (1-)3(-5)-flowered; 2.5-3 cm; puberulous. Pedicels 5-8 mm; glabrous. Flowers reddish white. Sepals 4; outer 2: suborbicular; ca. 4 mm; inner 2: obovate; ca. 8 mm. Petals 4; obovate; equal in size; ca. 8 mm. Ovary ovoid; stigma subulate. Mature fruit yellow; ovoid-oblong; 1.2-2 cm; apiculate. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Aug-Oct(-Dec).
Dense or sparse forests on hills; (200-)600-1000 m. S Guangdong; S Guangxi (coast); Hainan [Vietnam].
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Clusiaceae | Calophyllum
2. Calophyllum membranaceum Gardner & Champion; Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 309. 1849.
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Calophyllum spectabile Hooker & Arnott (1833); not Willdenow (1811).
Shrubs to small trees; 1-5 m tall. Young shoots tetragonous; narrowly winged. Petiole 6-10 mm; leaf blade lucid and opaque-brown on both surfaces when dry; oblong or oblong-lanceolate; 6-12 x 1.5-3.5 cm; thinly leathery; midvein raised on both surfaces; base cuneate; margin revolute; apex acute; acuminate; or caudate-acuminate. Cyme axillary and terminating short axillary shoots; (1-)3(-5)-flowered; 2.5-3 cm; puberulous. Pedicels 5-8 mm; glabrous. Flowers reddish white. Sepals 4; outer 2: suborbicular; ca. 4 mm; inner 2: obovate; ca. 8 mm. Petals 4; obovate; equal in size; ca. 8 mm. Ovary ovoid; stigma subulate. Mature fruit yellow; ovoid-oblong; 1.2-2 cm; apiculate. Fl. Mar-May; fr. Aug-Oct(-Dec).
Dense or sparse forests on hills; (200-)600-1000 m. S Guangdong; S Guangxi (coast); Hainan [Vietnam].