Polyalthia consanguinea

Site
CONIF
BLD
BLE
SCL
LEG
ZONPALM
ARBFERN
D-HERB
M-HERB
AZONAL WOODY
AZONAL NON-WOODY
AQUATIC
PROBLEMATIC TAXA
CONIF
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BLD
0.00
BLE
1.00
SCL
0.00
LEG
0.00
ZONPALM
0.00
ARBFERN
0.00
D-HERB
0.00
M-HERB
0.00
AZONAL WOODY
0.00
AZONAL NON-WOODY
0.00
AQUATIC
0.00
PROBLEMATIC TAXA
0.00

Comments

Vasilis Teodoridis:
Polyalthia consanguinea Merrill.

???? Trees to 12 m tall. Bark dark gray. Twigs reddish; minutely rusty pubescent; soon glabrous; with numerous lenticels when young. Petiole 3--5 mm; swollen; puberulous; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate; 10--20 X 2.5--7 cm; thinly leathery to papery; abaxially dull; pubescent along midvein; and drying silvery-green; adaxially glabrous and shiny; base narrowed and sometimes unequilateral; margin slightly revolute; lateral veins 10--14 pairs; curving; forming a wide angle with midvein; anastomosing doubly; abaxially prominent; and adaxially flat. Inflorescences in axils of leaves or fallen leaves; 1--3-flowered. Pedicel 1--1.8 cm; pubescent; bracteoles 2 or 3; minute; 2 basal and other medial. Sepals ovate-triangular; 2--3 mm; leathery; outside pubescent; inside glabrous; apex slightly obtuse. Petals white; subequal; oblong; 10--12.5 X 3--4.5 mm; outside pubescent; inside glabrous and rough; margins revolute; apex slightly obtuse. Stamens ca. 1 mm; connective apically flat-topped to convex; pubescent. Carpels ovate-oblong; ca. 1.5 mm; pubescent; ovules 2 per carpel. Stigmas ovate; pubescent. Fruiting stipes 0.7--2 cm; carpels reddish brown; globose to spherical; 1--2 cm in diam.; thinly walled; glabrous and densely minute verrucate. Seeds 2; verrucose. Fl. Jan--Apr; fr. Jun--Dec.

???? Woods; 400--500 m. Hainan [Malaysia].