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Canarium parvum Leenh.

Description

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Trees or shrubs, 3-8 m tall, 15-30 cm d.b.h. Branchlets 3-5 mm in diam. Leaves exstipulate; leaflets 2-4 pairs; blades ovate, elliptic-ovate, or nearly rounded, 4.5-10 × 2-5 cm, adaxially pubescent near base of midrib, abaxially shortly pubescent especially on veins, base rounded or cuneate, oblique, margin entire, apex with acumen 5-15 mm; lateral veins 10-12 pairs. Inflorescences extra-axillary, puberulent or nearly glabrescent; male flowers in narrow cymose panicles 4.5-9 cm, female flowers few, in racemes 3-7 cm. Male flowers 7-10 mm, sparsely pubescent, female flowers ca. 5.5 mm, nearly glabrescent. Calyx 1.5-2 mm in male flowers, ca. 3 mm in female flowers. Stamens glabrous, smaller in female flowers; filaments connate for 1/3 of length in male flowers, 1/2 or more in female flowers; disk annular, ca. 1 mm high, fleshy, margin truncate, somewhat 6-lobed, ciliate, center excavate in male flowers, margin long hispid in female flowers. Ovary densely rusty tomentose, absent in male flowers. Infructescences 4-11 cm, minutely gray pubescent, 1-4-fruited; persistent calyx shallowly 3-lobed, ca. 5 mm in diam., lobes recurved. Drupe yellow-green, glabrous, spindle-shaped, both ends acute, 3-4 × 1-2.5 cm; cross section of pyrene triangular. Fl. Nov-May, fr. Aug-Nov.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 11: 108, 109 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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SE Yunnan (Hekou) [Vietnam].
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 11: 108, 109 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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Valley forests; 100-700 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 11: 108, 109 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
project
eFloras.org
original
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partner site
eFloras