Arytera brachyphylla Radlk.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Arytera

Characteristics

Tree. Indumentum short, appressed, straight. llranchlets hairy when young; fruiting twigs 4-4.5 mm thick. Leaves 2-jugate; petiole 4-5.8 cm long; rachis 2.5-4.1 cm long, terete, glabrous to hairy; petiolules 4-9.5 mm long, 1-grooved. Leaflets opposite, oblong-elliptic to-obovate, 8.3-15 by 4.5-8.5 cm, index 1.5-2.1, not falcate, thickly chartaceous, not punctate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface (slightly) hairy on major nerves, colour slightly different from above; base symmetric, acute to almost rounded; apex rounded to shortly acuminate, very apex obtuse to rounded, not mucronulate; venation flat above, midrib slightly raised, oncolorous with lamina, venation almost flat be-low, midrib distinctly raised, nerves indistinctly looped submarginally, veins scalariform, lax, not very distinct; domatia (sunken) sacs opening on lop. Inflorescences axillary to pseudoterminal, branching basally and along rachis; rachis terete, 6.5-14 cm long, hairy when young; first-order branches up to 7 cm long; bracts and bracteoles not observed; pedicels to 4-6 mm long in fruit, hairy. Flowers not observed. Calyx c. 1.2 mm high, deeply incised, outside hairy, inside glabrous; teeth equal, not punctate, margin not membranous, apex acute. Ovary 2-(or 3-)locular; style and stigma elongating to 2-2.5 mm in fruit, not lobed, in fruit upper 0.7-1.5 mm stigmatic. Fruits with 1 or 2 well-developed lobes, 0.8-1.3 by 0.9-2.1 cm, loculicidal, smooth to slightly verrucose, slightly hairy, stipe c. 2 mm long, slender, lobes not flattened laterally, 7.5-11 by 5.5-9.5 mm, dorsally rounded; endocarp thin, chartaceous, pilose. Seeds (sub)orbicular to slightly obovoid, not flattened laterally, 6-10 by 6-9 mm; arillode covering ½-⅔ of the seed, dentate to slightly lobed, not to slightly folded to-wards the base inside, thick towards base, coria-ceous, 2-layered.
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Distribution

Arytera brachyphylla world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:782070-1
WFO ID wfo-0000550680
COL ID H42Z
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Synonyms

Arytera brachyphylla Cupania brachyphylla