Platea excelsa var. riedeliana (Becc.) Sleumer

Variety

Angiosperms > Icacinales > Icacinaceae > Platea > Platea excelsa

Characteristics

Tree, up to 24 m, up to 45 cm ø. Leaves elliptic to subovate-elliptic, apex obtuse or rounded, rarely subemarginate, 7-15(-21) by 4.5-6 (in sterile specimens or suckers rarely up to 8.5) cm, nerves 6-8(-10) pairs, curved-ascending and rather spaced from each other, reticulation fine and dense, generally markedly raised on both faces. Drupe c. 3 by 1.3 cm. Flowers as in var. excelsa.
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Mature height (meter) 24.0
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Generally in lowland, often (in Borneo always) in peat swamp forest (then usually with irregular spreading stilt-roots), once found on Mt Kinabalu at 1525 m.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Platea excelsa var. riedeliana world distribution map, present in Brunei Darussalam, Iceland, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:608239-1
WFO ID wfo-0000750643
COL ID 4JN72
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Synonyms

Platea riedeliana Platea excelsa var. riedeliana