Alphitonia incana (Roxb.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Kurz

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae > Alphitonia

Characteristics

Trees, small to medium-sized, evergreen, rarely to 30 m tall. Young branches ± densely yellowish to whitish pubescent. Leaves alternate, papery to subleathery; petiole 9-15 mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade 7-13 × 2.5-5 cm, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, abaxially yellowish pubescent, adaxially ferruginous tomentose when young, glabrescent, primary veins prominent abaxially, impressed adaxially, lateral veins 11-15 pairs, base acute or obtuse to rounded, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Flowers light green to yellowish, 4-5 mm in diam., bisexual, 5-merous, in terminal or axillary cymes. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx tube shallowly hemispherical, outside densely brownish pubescent; sepals triangular, ca. 1.5 mm, adaxially ± distinctly keeled. Petals erect to recurved, spatulate, ca. as long as stamens, clawed. Disk pentagonous, shallow, lining calyx tube, glandular. Ovary obconical, ± completely immersed in disk, 2-or 3-loculed; style conical, nearly to half divided into 2 or 3 slightly capitate stylar branches. Drupe greenish when young, black at maturity, globose to broadly ovoid, 1-1.2(-1.4) cm in diam., basally surrounded by persistent calyx tube; exocarp irregularly dehiscent, with 2 or 3 woody locules, along ventral suture dehiscent at maturity, locules 1-seeded; fruiting pedicel 3-4 mm. Seeds red, shiny, with membranous aril, often permanently attached to receptacle after fruit dehiscence. Fl. Oct-Dec, fr. Mar-May of following year.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 30.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use fuel material medicinal poison social use
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Therapeutic use Chafe (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Magic (unspecified), Freckle (unspecified), Throat (unspecified), Voice (unspecified)
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Distribution

Alphitonia incana world distribution map, present in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:716623-1
WFO ID wfo-0000527309
COL ID C66T
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Synonyms

Alphitonia incana Rhamnus incana Alphitonia moluccana