Maniltoa lenticellata C.T.White

Species

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Characteristics

Tree to 22 m high (in Australia); branchlets lenticellate, glabrous or shortly pubescent. Leaf buds to 9 cm long; young leaf flush cream to bright pinkish brown. Leaves drooping, with petiole 0.4–1.2 cm long; rachis mostly 5-19 cm long. Leaflets usually in (2–) 3–5 pairs (in Australia), asymmetrically ovate or obovate to elliptic or oblong, acuminate, 2.5–12.5 cm long, 1.1–5.4 cm wide; acumen well-developed, emarginate to bifid at the tip for 0.5–1.5 mm; lobes sometimes pincer-like, glabrous throughout or with scattered hairs on the petiolules. Inflorescence axis 2–5 cm long, shortly and densely rusty-pubescent when young, glabrescent; bracts 1.5–5 cm long, adpressed-hairy; bracteoles 5–8 mm long. Flowers on pedicels 1.3–3.4 cm long; receptacle 2.5–5 cm long. Sepals 1.3–1.5 cm long. Petals 1–1.8 cm long, white or cream. Staminal filaments to 2.3 cm long, shortly united basally. Ovary on a stipe 5–10 mm long, glabrous or with scattered hairs. Fruit 2.5–4.8 cm long, 1.8–3.6 cm wide, 0.7–1.7 cm thick (fide B. Verdcourt, Man. New Guinea Legumes 57–77 (1979)).
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Tree 7.5-42 m high, 12.5-60 cm in diam., sometimes with buttresses, up to 3 m high. Leaves (2-)3-7-jugate; rachis 10-18 cm, petiole 0.5-2 cm, petiolules 0.3-0.7 cm. Leaflets ovate or obovate, elliptic, or oblong, 5.5 — 13( — 14.5) by 3-5.6(-6.5) cm; apex acuminate, the acumen well-developed, bifid at the tip for 1-3 mm; base asymmetrically cuneate; midrib 8-12(-20) mm from the upper margin; venation above faintly impressed, nerves beneath finely prominent. Rachis of the inflorescence 3-6 cm, glabrescent; bracts 1.5-5 cm, appressed-hairy; bracteoles 5-8 mm; pedicels 1.4-3 cm. Flowers white-cream. Hypanthium 2.5-4 mm deep. Sepals 1.3-1.5 cm. Petals 1.2 — 1.8 cm. Stamens connate over 0.2-1 mm at the base; filaments 1.4-2.3 cm; anthers apiculate. Ovary glabrous to densely hairy; stipe (3 — )5 — 10 mm. Fruits 2.5-4.8 by 1.8-3.6 by 0.7-1.7 cm. Seeds subreniform, 1.5 by 1 cm.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Environment

A sub-canopy and canopy tree in open, high rain forest and monsoon forest, forest edges; at elevations up to 1,050 metres.
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Occurs in rainforest and vine forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses charcoal dye fuel material social use wood
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Can be grown by seedlings.
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Images

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Distribution

Maniltoa lenticellata world distribution map, present in Australia and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:505909-1
WFO ID wfo-0000188556
COL ID 3XVGG
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Synonyms

Maniltoa lenticellata

Lower taxons

Maniltoa lenticellata var. lenticellata Maniltoa lenticellata var. villosa