Rhysotoechia congesta Etman

Species

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Characteristics

Tree, 6-21 m high, dbh 42 cm, not buttressed, with somewhat gnarled divided trunk, narrow crown of erect branches, outer bark dark brown with minute fissures, inner bark light brown. Branchlets rough, greenish brown to greenish black; flowering twigs 10-15 mm thick. Leaves 1-3-jugate; petiole absent; rachis to 20 cm long, terete to flattened below the jugae, sometimes slightly winged below the jugae, ribbed, glabrous; petiolule a pulvinus only, 5-8 mm long, flattened above, glabrous. Leaflets opposite, elliptic to obovate, 12-30 by 6-14 cm, index 1.6-2.8, ± coriaceous, both sides glabrous; base distinctly oblique, obtuse to rounded; margin (strongly) recurved; apex acute to obtuse; midrib flattened, slightly sunken, ribbed, lateral nerves 2-5 cm apart, usually slightly sunken, ba-sally indistinctly, apically distinctly looped, intercalated, veins curved towards the base, veins very laxly reticulate, on upper surface slightly raised. Inflorescences axillary or subterminal or ramiflorous, paniculate, branching at the base, very laxly puberulous to glabrous when old; bracts, bracte-oles, pedicels and flowers not observed. Fruits globular with an emarginate apex, attenuate at the base, 2-2.5 by 1.8-2.3 cm, outside slightly rugose, glabrous, inside papillose; stipe 3-5 mm high; lobes 1-3, well developed, 1.5-1.7 by 1-1.1 cm; style c. 1 mm long. Seeds ovoid, c. 12 by 10 mm; hilum c. 4 mm diam.; pseudohilum c. 6 mm diam.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Rhysotoechia congesta world distribution map, present in Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:979796-1
WFO ID wfo-0000463899
COL ID 4SVST
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Synonyms

Rhysotoechia congesta