Barry Conn (NSW) & Kipiro Damas (LAE).
Guide to trees of Papua New Guinea
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Endiandra grandiflora Teschner

Botanische Jahrbucher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie Vol. 58: 417 (1923)

Family: Lauraceae
Dicotyledon

Timber Group: Minor hardwood

Field Characters: Large canopy tree (up to c. 35 m high); Bole cylindrical (up to c. 80 cm diam.); straight (bole up to c. 20 m long); buttresses buttresses absent; spines spines absent; aerial roots aerial roots absent; stilt roots stilt roots absent; bark exudate (sap) absent; terminal buds not enclosed by leaves.

Indumentum: Complex hairs absent; stinging hairs absent; mature twig indumentum (hairs) present, hairs dense (with reddish brown hairs).

Leaves: Leaves spaced along branches, spiral (leaves occurring singly at a node and arranged spirally up the branchlet) or sub opposite (in pairs, opposite one another on the branchlet), simple (a leaf composed of a single blade); petiole present (short, c. 5 mm long), not winged, attached to base of leaf blade, not swollen; leaves broadest at or near middle, 14.0-18.0 cm, 7.0-12.0 cm; symmetric, entire, not dissected or lobed, slightly acuminate or obtuse, venation pinnate, secondary veins open, prominent, intramarginal veins absent; leaves lower surface brown (caused by reddish brown hairs) or green, upper surface dull dark green, indumentum (hairs) present, indumentum (hairs) dense (on lower surface); absent; domatia absent; stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescence axillary, flowers on a branched axis, cones absent; flowers bisexual, stalked, flowers with many planes of symmetry, 2.0-3.0 mm long, diameter small (up to10 mm diam.) (2-3 mm diam.); perianth present (densely hairy), with all sepals and/or petals (hence tepals) similar, inner perianth cream-coloured or brown (pale (caused by brownish hairs); 3 (inner perianth 3, outer perianth 3), free; stamens 3, present, free of each other, free of the perianth; ovary superior, carpels solitary, locules 1; styles solitary, 1.

Fruits: Infrutescence arranged on branched axis, fruit not spiny, slightly fleshy, simple, indehiscent, drupe; seeds 1, much more than 10 mm long, not winged, broad (as wide as long), seed more than 10 mm diam.

Distribution: Morobe.

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