Maranthes corymbosa Blume

  • Filed As

    Chrysobalanaceae
    Maranthes corymbosa Blume

  • Collector(s)

    A. D. E. Elmer 11208, Jul 1909

  • Location

    Philippines. near Sibulan river, Todaya (Mt. Apo) District of Davao, Island of Mindanao,.

  • Habitat

    in forests of a stream near river.

  • Description

    Tree 60 feet high or higher, stem 2 1/2 feet thick, not straight, round; wood hard, odorless and tasteless, sapwood whitish the central portion reddish, bark thin or comparatively so, reddish beneath the yellowish gray epidermis, rigid and hard, smooth or scaling in thin plates; limbes gray, mainly at the top and forming a flattish rather congested crown; twigs ascending tough and quite rigid; coriaceous leaves recurved, strongly conduplicate on the upper deeper green surface, sublucid on both sides; infrutescence terminal or upon leafless twigs, oblong, 1 inch long, 1/2 inch across, terete, subpendulous, pale yellow and turning to a deep wine color, hard.

  • Specimen Notes

    [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2024.]

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 4771408

    Occurrence ID: 0f01da2f-f839-48b3-a71d-e930d25320d8

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Malpighiales

  • Family

    Chrysobalanaceae

  • All Determinations

    Maranthes corymbosa Blume

  • Region

    Asia

  • Country

    Philippines

  • Locality

    near Sibulan river, Todaya (Mt. Apo) District of Davao, Island of Mindanao,

  • Elevation

    Alt. 457 m. (1499 ft.)

  • Location Notes

    [Pacifica]

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The New York Botanical Garden
Det. G^T. Prance
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
NEW YORKBOTANICAL GARDEN
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