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1. Cleidion brevipetiolatum Pax & K.Hoffm.wfo-0000872254

in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV. 147. vii: 292. 1914; Gagnep. in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 451. 1926. Plate IX: 2.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Shrub to tree, up to 15 m high. Stipules triangular, 2.5–4.5 by 0.8–2 mm. Leaves: petiole 0.3–5 cm long; blade 5–22 by 2.2–7.5 cm, length/width ratio 2.2–2.8, papery, dark green above, light green underneath, base narrowly rounded to cuneate; nerves 9–14 per side. Staminate inflorescences up to 19 cm long, pendulous, green. Staminate flowers ca 5.5 mm in diam.; pedicel ca 1.5 mm long, whitish-light greenish; sepals ovate, ca 3 by 2 mm, light green, basally hairy outside; filaments ca 1 mm long, whitish-light greenish; anthers ca 0.4 by 0.4 mm, light yellowish. Pistillate flowers: pedicel 2.1–6.5 cm long, green; sepals 5, green, elliptic to slightly obovate, some ca 2.5 by 1 mm, others ca 5.5 by 2 mm, enlarging in fruit to 12–18 by 5–6 mm, margin somewhat entire; ovary 3-locular, ca 2.5 by 1.5 mm, green; style almost absent; stigmas 3, ca 8 mm long, split in upper 6 mm, dorsally light brown. Fruits 12–15 mm in diam., pilose, glabrescent. Seeds ca 8 by 8 by 7 mm.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Chiang Mai (Doi Angkhang, Doi Chiang Dao), Nan (Tham Luang).

Distribution : China, Laos, Vietnam (type).

Ecology : Uncommon in open areas, in dense mixed evergreen and deciduous forests, on limestone, 100–1,500 m alt.