Trigonachras cuspidata Radlk

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Trigonachras

Characteristics

Tree up to 15 m high, dbh up to 40 cm. Twigs terete, 4-5 mm diam., blackish, glabrous. Leaves 1-4-jugate; petiole (sub)terete, 3-6.5 cm long by 1-2 mm broad; petiolules above slightly grooved, 7-15 mm long. Leaflets opposite, elliptic, 5-14 by 2-4.75 cm, index 2-3, slightly falcate, stiff-perga-mentaceous, glabrous, without glands; base oblique, acute, attenuate; apex with a ± tapering long acute acuminate; nerves 1-2 cm apart, spreading, strongly curved, ending free; reticulation coarse, prominulous on both sides. Inflorescences seemingly terminal as the vegetative terminal bud is mostly shifted aside and suppressed, c. 12 cm long, sparsely branched, densely appressedly shortly brown hairy. Sepals broad-ovate, c. 1.5 by 2 mm, outside and inside sparsely hairy. Petals: blade broad-ovate, 1.5-3 by c. 1.3 mm, glabrous, inside with 2 short scales. Stamens 8; filaments c. 5 mm long, woolly in lower two thirds; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, sparsely ciliate. Pistil 3-locular. Fruits triangular-ellipsoid, 4-5 by 2-3 cm, stipitate and apicu-late or not, glabrous; wall fleshy, c. 5 mm thick, endocarp densely brown woolly. Seeds c. 1.5 by 0.75 cm, brown; hilum basal, suborbicular.
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Trigonachras cuspidata world distribution map, present in Philippines

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:785514-1
WFO ID wfo-0000459213
COL ID 58R2N
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Synonyms

Trigonachras cuspidata Trigonachras falcatocuspidata