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8. Madhuca laurifolia (King & Gamble) H.J.Lamwfo-0000232777

Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Sér. 3, 7: 176. 1925 & Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, Sér. 3, 8: 456. 1927; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 5: suppl. 319. 1925; Ng in Whitmore, Tree Fl. Malaya 1: 406. 1972.— Bassia laurifolia King & Gamble, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 74(2): 182. 1906; Ridl., Fl. Malay Penins. 2: 269. 1923.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Synonyms & Citations :

Description : Tree to 15 m tall; branchlets angular, sparsely reddish brown puberulous or glabrescent. Leaves scattered; lamina chartaceous or subcoriaceous, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, (12.5–) 14–19 by (4–) 5–7.5 cm; apex acute or obtusely acuminate; base cuneate, decurrent; both surfaces glabrous; midrib grooved, minutely crested above, rounded below; secondary veins 7–12 on each side, vanishing near the margin, somewhat looped in apical part of leaf; tertiary veins transverse and reticulately connected; petioles 2–3 cm long, grooved and narrowly crested above, rounded below, thickened at base, glabrous; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 4–5 by 1–1.5 mm, reddish brown puberulous outside, glabrous inside, caducous. Flowers 3–8 in axils of leaves of fallen leaves; pedicels angular, 3–6 mm long, brownish sericeous. Sepals 4, brown sericeous outside, glabrous inside; outer sepals ovate to broadly ovate, 4.7–5.4 by 3.5–4.2 mm; inner sepals narrowly ovate to ovate, 4.3–5.3 by 2.5–4.2 mm, with membranous, glabrous, fimbriate margin. Corolla 5.7–6.2 mm long, sparsely hairy on the outside of the tube and along mid-line of the lobes and reddish brown woolly between the stamens: tube ca 2.5 mm long; lobes 8, oblong to oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, 3.2–3.7 by 1.2–1.4 mm. Stamens 16, 3–3.5 mm long; filaments subulate, 0.8–1.2 mm long, reddish brown woolly; anthers oblong, 2–2.5 mm long, sparsely reddish brown hirsute; connective ca 0.2 mm long. Ovary conoid, tapering into the style, 6–7-locular, glabrous; style 5–8 mm long, exserted, glabrous. Fruits (immature) globose or ellipsoid, 7 by 5–7 mm, crowned by style remnant at apex.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Phatthalung (Thamot), Songkhla (Ban Prakop).

Distribution : Malaysia (type).

Ecology : In evergreen forests, ca 100 m alt.

Vernacular : Paduwa (ปะดูวา)(Songkhla); pu-du-wa (ปูดูวา)(Malay-Pattani, Songkhla).