Alangium Lam. sect. Rhytidandra (A.Gray) Baill.

de Wilde, W. J. J. O. & Duyfjes, B. E. E., 2017, The species of Alangium section Rhytidandra (Alangiaceae), Blumea 62 (1), pp. 75-83 : 75

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scientific name	Alangium Lam. sect. Rhytidandra (A.Gray) Baill.
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Alangium Lam. sect. Rhytidandra (A.Gray) Baill. (1864–1865) 193; (1876) 270;Bloemb.(1939) 197. ― Rhytidandra A. Gray (1854) View in CoL 302,t. 28. ― Type: Rhytidandra vitiense A.Gray (= Alangium vitiense (A.Gray) Baill. View in CoL ).

Shrubs or trees. Inflorescences a single peduncled cyme. Flowers: petals free or connate at base; stamens as many as petals; filament longer or shorter than anther; stigma 2-armed, stigmatic on the inside. Fruit several per infructescence, ellipsoid or ovoid, more or less flattened. Endosperm smooth, radicle shorter than half the length of the cotyledons.

Distribution ― Java east into the Pacific, Fiji, New Caledonia, E Australia.

Thirteen species are recognised.

1 Naturalis Biodiversity Center, section Botany, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands;

corresponding author e-mail: b.dewilde-duyfjes@naturalis.nl.