Lepiderema papuana Radlk.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Lepiderema

Characteristics

(Presumably) small tree. Flowering branchlets c. 6 mm thick, glabrous. Leaves 3-5-jugate; peduncle 5.4-13.7 cm long; rachis 5.3-11.8 cm long, glabrous. Leaflets elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 4.6-16.5 by 2.2-5.8 cm; both surfaces glabrous; venation raised above; nerves looped and joined near the margin. Inflorescences pseudoterminal; rachis 3.8-6.9 cm long, shortly hirsute, branching at base; cymules 1-flowered; pedicel c. 1.75 mm long, short-ly, sparsely hairy with simple and with scale hairs; part above abscission zone c. 1 mm long. Flowers 2.5-3 by c. 1.5 mm, probably only female ones seen. Sepals elliptic to suborbicular, glabrous, outer two c. 1 by 0.75 mm, inner three c. 2 by 1.25 mm. Petals 5, elliptic, c. 1.75-2 by 0.5-1.25 mm, glabrous to sparsely hairy; claw less than 0.1 mm long, hairy at base; apex rounded. Stamens 8; filaments 0.5-0.75 mm long, densely hairy at least at base; anthers c. 1 mm long, mainly hairy on connective. Ovary c. 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; style and stigma c. 2 mm long. Fruits and seeds unknown.
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Distribution

Lepiderema papuana world distribution map, present in Somalia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:783449-1
WFO ID wfo-0000446234
COL ID 6P9MJ
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Synonyms

Lepiderema papuana