Aistopetalum viticoides Schltr.

Species

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Cunoniaceae > Aistopetalum

Characteristics

Trees up to 40 m tall, bole 20 m by 60 cm diameter, with or without buttresses. Twigs minutely strigose-puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves with petiole (1-)1.5-4(-7) cm, in-ternodes of rachis 1-3 cm, terete, channelled above, minutely strigose-puberulous. Leaflets oblong, 3-18 by 1-7 cm, apex acuminate, base acute to obtuse and decurrent, margin shallowly crenate-serrate to subentire, nerves 8-15(-18) on each side of midrib, blade sparsely puberulous to glabrous above, fairly densely so to glabrous beneath, glabrescent; petiolule 3-12 mm. Stipules ovate-oblong, up to 7 by 3 mm, densely minutely puberulous beneath. Inflorescences of c. 25-100 flowers, up to 16 by 8 cm, subunits usually in opposite axils of most distal pair of leaves or in subdistal axils; peduncle up to 3 cm; branches sparsely to densely puberulous, most densely so towards ultimate branchlets. Flowers with pedicel up to 2.5 mm long and from 0.7 mm thick merging into receptacle to 1.8 mm in diameter. Sepals ovate to lanceolate, 2.7-3.6 by 1.2-2.6 mm, glabrous to shortly strigose or strigose-hirsute beneath, ± densely shortly strigose above. Stamens with filaments 1.4-2.2 mm long, 0.2-0.3 mm wide at base, anthers cordate, obtuse or submucronate at apex, retuse at base, 0.6-0.8 by 0.6-0.7 by 0.3-0.4 mm. Disc 0.5-1.2 mm tall, 0.5-1 mm thick, glabrous. Ovary 0.7-1.2 by 1-1.5 mm, glabrous except for row of hairs along outside centre of each cell; styles 0.3-0.4 by 0.2-0.3 mm, glabrous. Fruit ovoid to globular, up to 20 by 13-20 mm, glabrous, the styles slightly prominent around central-apical depression; in transverse section, fleshy layer c. 1-2 mm thick when dried, locules (4-)5-7 in a ring towards centre, each containing a single seed. Seeds oblong, c. 6 by 1.5 mm.
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Mature height (meter) 40.0
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In primary forest from near sea level up to 2200 m
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Distribution

Aistopetalum viticoides world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Conservation status

Aistopetalum viticoides threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:294524-1
WFO ID wfo-0000524772
COL ID 65V4B
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Synonyms

Aistopetalum tetramerum Aistopetalum viticoides