Barry Conn (NSW) & Kipiro Damas (LAE).
Guide to trees of Papua New Guinea
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Barringtonia calyptrocalyx (Meirs) R.Br. ex Bailey

Die Flora von Kaiser Wilhelms Land (1889)

Family: Lecythidaceae
Dicotyledon

Timber Group: Occasional timber species

Field Characters: Large canopy tree (occasionally to 33 m high) or Small sub-canopy tree (10-20 m high); Bole cylindrical; straight (bole to 15 m long); buttresses slightly buttresses present or buttresses absent; spines spines absent; aerial roots aerial roots absent; stilt roots stilt roots absent; Bark pale to dark grey, slightly rough or smooth (except for folds and fissures), fissured or slightly pustular; less than 25 mm thick (18-20 mm thick); bark blaze consisting of one layer; strongly aromatic; pine-like (slight antiseptic odour); outer blaze pale yellow, speckled (yellow and green mottled), smooth; inner blaze pale yellow, speckled (yellow and green mottled), smooth; bark exudate (sap) absent; terminal buds not enclosed by leaves.

Indumentum: Complex hairs absent; stinging hairs absent; mature twig indumentum (hairs) absent.

Leaves: Leaves spaced along branches, spiral (leaves occurring singly at a node and arranged spirally up the branchlet), simple (a leaf composed of a single blade); petiole present (10-15 mm long), not winged, attached to base of leaf blade, not swollen; leaves broadest above middle, 13.0-21.0 cm, 5.0-9.5 cm; symmetric (tapering), entire, not dissected or lobed, rounded, venation pinnate, secondary veins open, prominent, intramarginal veins absent; leaves lower surface pale green or green, upper surface pale green or green, indumentum (hairs) absent; absent; domatia absent; stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescence on the trunk or branches, flowers on an unbranched axis, cones absent; flowers bisexual, not stalked or stalked (shortly), flowers with many planes of symmetry, 20.0 (c.) mm long, diameter large (more than10 mm diam.) (c. 20 mm diam.); perianth present, with distinct sepals and petals whorls (sepals reduced to collar), inner perianth cream-coloured; 5, free; stamens many 100, present, free of each other, free of the perianth; ovary inferior, carpels joined (when more than one), locules 2-6; styles solitary, 1.

Fruits: Infrutescence arranged on unbranched axis, fruit not spiny, fleshy, simple, indehiscent, berry; seeds 1, not winged, narrow (longer than wide).

Distribution: East Sepik, Madang, Morobe, Western, Central, Northern, Papuan Islands & New Britain.

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