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Dichapetalum timoriense

Botanic Family

Dichapetalaceae

Author

(de Candolle) Boerlage

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Maluku - Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Timor
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands

Natural Habitats

• Riverside
• montane riverside
• primary and secondary forest
• lowland & hill forest
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (Philippines)
• Jan-Dec (Malesia)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Dec (Malesia)

Monoecious or dioecious climbing or scrambling glabrous woody twiner to 10m, sometimes a small tree, with pubescent branches becoming glabrescent. Coriaceous leaves to 180mm x 100mm, glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Terminal or axillary erect pubescent corymbs to 50mm x 4mm with bracteoles, of yellow-green or white flowers to 4mm x 3.5mm, pubescent calyx lobes to 3mm long, 5 glabrous petals to 3mm x 1mm, calyx & peduncles with white villi. Fruit velvety-pubescent to 25mm diameter.

Further References

• APDC
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• FS
• Botanicus
• Flora Malesiana
• GBS
• Merrill