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6. Drypetes harmandii Pierre ex Gagnep.wfo-0000946505

Bull. Soc. Bot. France 71: 259. 1924; in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 5: 569. 1927; Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 26: 254. 1972.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Tree, up to 15 m high; branchlets pubescent, yellowish. Stipules linear-lanceolate, ca 9 by 2 mm, outside densely appressed hairy, caducous. Leaves: petiole 7–10 mm long, thick, pubescent; blade oblong, 13–21.5 by 3–7.5 cm, coriaceous, base cuneate or rounded, margin coarsely serrate, apex cuspidate, tip obtuse; nerves in 8–10 pairs, veins and veinlets reticulate, conspicuous beneath. Flowers axillary. Staminate flowers unknown. Pistillate flowers sessile; sepals 5, oblong or obovate-oblong, outside densely appressed hairy, inside glabrous; ovary ovoid or globose, 2-locular, densely brown hairy; style short; stigmas large. Fruits subsessile, globose, ca 4 cm in diam., densely pubescent outside. Seeds 2.

Thailand : SOUTH-EASTERN: Chon Buri (Si Racha, Khao Khiao); PENINSULAR: Surat Thani.

Distribution : Indochina (type from Laos).

Ecology : In evergreen forests, on limestone mountains, 150–350 m alt.

Vernacular : Kluean (เกลื้อน)(Krabi); mak fak (หมักฟัก)(Laos).