Monoon fuscum (King) B.Xue & R.M.K.Saunders,
Taxon 61: 1031 (2012)
(Latin for 'dark brown')
Synonyms
Enicosanthum fuscum (King) Airy Shaw
Griffithia fusca King
Griffithianthus fuscus (King) Merrill
Description
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic, ca. 15 x 6 cm. Inflorescences on the stem, small bundels of several flowers.
Flowers white-yellowish. Fruit an brownish apocarp with each carpel having several seeds.
Ecology
Lowland and submontane forests.
Distribution
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo.
Local names
Indonesia: Mempisang.
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