Common Names
Celebes: marisa (Donggala) & sanru (Malili); New Guinea: kayu tjina (Meos Noom) & wasiwarare (on Japen I.) (1).Taxonomic notes
Description
"Tree, 8-25(-35) m tall, 16-40 cm diam. Foliage buds 3-9 mm long, the primary scales spreading. Juvenile leaves up to 20 by 1.5 cm, narrowly acute. Adult leaves linear-lanceolate, 8-14 by 1-1.4 cm, acute or narrowly rounded at the apex, narrowing at the base to a 4-9 mm petiole, stiff, upper hypodermal fibres in a continuous layer, upper midrib a low blunt ridge 0.3-0.5 mm wide and 0.1-0.2 mm high which furthermore often collapses upon drying so that the leaf appears smooth or even channeled, often with five vascular resin canals. Pollen cones typical of the section or longer, up to 8 cm long, solitary or in groups of up to three. Receptacle often with two bracts fertile and then sometimes with a third shorter sterile bract on one side between the other two, red when mature; foliola 2-4 mm long. Seed with its covering 12-13 by c. 8 mm" (1).Range
E. Borneo (once; Berau); Celebes; Moluccas (Talaud Is.: Karakelong, Mt Piapi; Ambon: Mt Salhutu & Mt Hon); W New Guinea (Meos Noom & Japan Is.). "Scattered and locally common in primary rain-forest, from sea-level to 1650 m. In E. Borneo on limestone" (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
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Citations
(1) Laubenfels 1988.[Podocarpus] [Podocarpaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.net
Last modified on 21-Dec-98