Post by Melanie on Dec 30, 2006 16:15:42 GMT 1
4. Hopea shingkeng (Dunn) Bor, Indian Forest Rec., Bot., n.s. 2: 227. 1941.
西藏坡垒 XI ZANG PO LEI
Vatica shingkeng Dunn, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1920: 108. 1920.
Trees evergreen, to 18 m tall, glabrous; bark smooth, brown mottled. Twigs slender. Stipules fugacious; petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade 9–15 × 2.5–5 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, herbaceous, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs slender but prominent abaxially and impressed adaxially, tertiary veins laxly scalariform, base broadly cuneate, apex caudate. Panicles to 15 cm, lax, slender; flowers buds ca. 8 mm, narrowly ovoid, secund. Sepals broadly ovate, subequal. Petals ca. 8 × 4 mm, lanceolate, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15; anthers oblong; connective appendages ca. 3 × as long as anthers, slender. Ovary and stylopodium hourglass-shaped, with short tapering style. Fruit sepals unequal, 2 outer lobes to 3 × 2 cm, ovate, obtuse: 3 inner lobes to 1.5 cm, narrowly ovate; nut to 1.5 cm, ovoid-globose, apex apiculate.
* Moist evergreen forests; 300–600 m. SE Xizang (Siang, Abor Hills).
Population A small tree once locally exploited for house posts and now thought to be extinct.
西藏坡垒 XI ZANG PO LEI
Vatica shingkeng Dunn, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1920: 108. 1920.
Trees evergreen, to 18 m tall, glabrous; bark smooth, brown mottled. Twigs slender. Stipules fugacious; petiole ca. 1 cm; leaf blade 9–15 × 2.5–5 cm, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, herbaceous, lateral veins 7 or 8 pairs slender but prominent abaxially and impressed adaxially, tertiary veins laxly scalariform, base broadly cuneate, apex caudate. Panicles to 15 cm, lax, slender; flowers buds ca. 8 mm, narrowly ovoid, secund. Sepals broadly ovate, subequal. Petals ca. 8 × 4 mm, lanceolate, pubescent on parts exposed in bud. Stamens 15; anthers oblong; connective appendages ca. 3 × as long as anthers, slender. Ovary and stylopodium hourglass-shaped, with short tapering style. Fruit sepals unequal, 2 outer lobes to 3 × 2 cm, ovate, obtuse: 3 inner lobes to 1.5 cm, narrowly ovate; nut to 1.5 cm, ovoid-globose, apex apiculate.
* Moist evergreen forests; 300–600 m. SE Xizang (Siang, Abor Hills).
Population A small tree once locally exploited for house posts and now thought to be extinct.
