Ardisia pyrsocoma B.C.Stone, Mal. For. 45 (1982)
Latin for 'with fire-coloured hairs'.
Description
Shrub up to 5 m tall and 7 cm dbh. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate,
simple, penni-veined but venation barely visible, hairy below. Flowers ca. 8 mm
diameter, pink, placed in panicles. Fruits ca. 4 mm diameter, bluish-purple,
fleshy drupes.
Ecology
In undisturbed (peat)-swamp forests up to 100 m altitude. On poor soils. In
secondary forests usually present as a pre-disturbance remnant tree.
Distribution
Borneo (Sarawak, West-, Central-, South- and East-Kalimantan).
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