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2. Fagraea racemosa Jack ex Wall.wfo-0000685672

in Roxb., Fl. Ind. 2: 35. 1824; Kurz, Fl. Burm. 2: 205. 1877; Clarke in Fl. Br. Ind. 4: 84. 1883; Dop in Fl. Gén. I.-C. 4: 175. 1914; Corn., Ways. Trees. 1: 425–426. 1940; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 2: 418. 1923; Kerr in Fl. Siam. En. 3: 57. 1951; Leenhouts in Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 6: 311. Figs. 9–12. 1962; Tirel-Roudet in Fl. C.L.V. 13: 56. 1972; Hô, Câyco Vietnam 2: 847. Fig. 6066. 1992. Plate XVII: 1.

Accepted Name : Utania racemosa (Jack) Sugumaran
Pl. Ecol. Evol. 147: 220. 2014.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Small tree to 10 m, more rarely straggling climber; bark pale brown, fissured, slash-mark white; twigs brown, terete. Leaves: petiole 0.8–2.5 cm, sub-terete, without auricles; lamina elliptic, oblong, obovate-oblanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, 11–25 by 5–15 cm; base cuneate to subtruncate; apex acuminate or obtuse to rounded with an acumen to 1.5 cm; thickly or thinly coriaceous; midrib slightly raised to sunken above, prominently rounded below; secondary veins 4–8 pairs, visible or more rarely invisible above, prominent below. Stipules united to form an ochrea 1–2 mm high. Inflorescence terminal, to 16 cm, few to many flowered, laxly branched forming a tight head; peduncle 2–8.5 cm; pedicels 2–5 mm. Calyx 5–7 mm, campanulate; lobes 3–5 mm, constricted, becoming spreading in fruit. Corolla 2.1–3.5 cm, creamy-white to pale orange or dull yellow; tube 1.5–2 cm, funnel-shaped; lobes 5.5–10 mm, oblong. Stamens barely exserted beyond the corolla, filaments 1.4–1.8 cm, attached in the upper half of corolla tube, anthers 3–4.5 mm, oblong. Ovary and style 2.1–3.2 cm; stigma 1.3–2 mm, capitate, obconical or peltate, faintly bi-lobed. Fruit green (turning red?) ca 1–1.8 cm diam., globose-ellipsoid. Seeds 0.7–1.7 mm, roughly angled.

Thailand : SOUTH-EASTERN: Chanthaburi, Trat; PENINSULAR: Chumphon, Ranong, Surat Thani, Krabi (Nong Plong), Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat.

Distribution : S Burma, Cambodia, Laos, throughout Malesia (except Eastern Java, Madura Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands; Malaysia – type), Solomon Islands, N Australia.

Ecology : Secondary evergreen forests, peat-swamp forests, along roadsides in open areas. On either wet or dry soil.

Vernacular : Ta khian thao (ตะเคียนเฒ่า)(Southeastern); thum bok (ทุ่มบก), phawa nam (พวาน้ำ), wa nam (หว้าน้ำ)(Peninsular).

Uses: The timber is used for construction and firewood. Various decoctions are used as tonics.

Notes: Very variable in leaf size and shape and in inflorescence structure. The flowers smell of butter.