Alangium maliliense Bloemb.

Dewilde, W. J. J. O. & Duyfjes, B. E. E., 2017, Taxonomy of Alangium section Conostigma (Alangiaceae), Blumea 62 (1), pp. 29-46 : 35-37

10. Alangium maliliense Bloemb.

Alangium maliliense Bloemb.(1935) 286;(1939) 214,f. 8, 10cc, dd. — Lecto- type,here designated: Cel / V 161 (= Waturandang 43) (BO;iso L L0009824 ), Central Sulawesi, Malili near Kawata , c. 300 m alt., 27 Sept. 1932, fl.

Tree 15‒35 m tall; twigs brown, 1.5–2.5 mm diam, with dense stellate-dendroid bright brown hairs 0.3‒0.5(‒1) mm long; leaf bud curved, similarly densely hairy. Leaves: petiole 0.4–1 cm long, densely hairy; lamina drying greenish or blackish (leaden) brown, hairy (glabrescent above), (ovate or obovate) elliptic, 6–12 by 2.5–4.5(‒6) cm, base (sub)symmetric, broadly rounded or faintly cordate (rarely short cuneate), apex short acute-acuminate; veins pinnate, 7–11(–15) on each side, almost loop-veined; tertiary venation fine, thin-reticulate or subscalariform. Inflorescences few-flowered, densely hairy, consisting of 1 or 2 single flowers, or of 1 or 2 main branches (peduncles) from the leaf axil, each few-branched, 1- or 2- (or 3-)flowered; peduncle 5‒15 mm long. Flowers densely hairy; pedicel 1–5 mm long; corolla in bud (10–) 12‒14 mm long, base somewhat swollen, apex rounded; ovary and calyx 3–4 mm long, not ribbed; limb 1‒1.5 mm long, not spreading, at margin 4–5 mm wide, with 5 (or 6) erect triangular lobes c. 0.5 mm long; petals (4 or) 5 or 6, inside minutely appressed hairy, (10–) 12–15 mm long; stamens 5 or 6, filament (3‒) 4–5 mm long, densely long-hairy, thickened inside at apex, anther 6–10 mm long, connective glabrous; style densely hairy, (8–) 10‒13 mm long, stigma narrow, conical. Fruit solitary or 2 (or 3) per infructescence, stellate-dendroid yellow-brown hairy as the flower, ellipsoid, 10‒27 mm long; calyx remnant minute.

Distribution — Sulawesi, (N) Moluccas, NW Papua. There are 2 varieties.

Key to the varieties

1. Indument composed of hairs c. 0.5 mm long. Fruit (according to the original description) 23‒27 mm long. Leaves drying greenish, hairy or late-glabrescent below. ― Sulawesi .................................... a. var. maliliense