Xylocarpus moluccensis (Lam.) M.Roem.

Meliaceae, Styles & F. White (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991

Morphology General Habit

Tree 3–15 m. tall; bark rough.

Morphology Roots

Ribbon-like pneumatophores absent.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves up to 16 cm. long, glabrous drying yellowish green; leaflets 2–6, subcoriaceous, ovate or ovate- lanceolate, up to 12 × 6 cm., tapering from near the asymmetric obtuse or subtruncate base to the subacuminate apex.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences

Inflorescence 5–15 cm. long, when well developed a lax raceme of lax cymes.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx ± 0.2 cm. long, glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals up to 0.7 cm. long, glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Staminal tube up to 0.55 cm. long, glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit up to 8 cm. in diameter, otherwise similar to X. granatum.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds 3.5–7.5 cm. long.

Figures

Fig 21/6.

Habitat

In coastal scrub just above high-water mark, especially on sandy soil and coral rocks

Distribution

K7 T3 T6 the Mascarenes and throughout most of the Old World tropics to Australia, Fiji and Tonga, but apparently absent from India except for the Andamans

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

Meliaceae, F. White and B. T. Styles. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963

Morphology General Habit

Medium-sized much-branched spreading semi-evergreen tree up to 13 m. tall (much taller elsewhere), sometimes flowering as a shrub; bark rough like an Ulmus; ribbon-like buttresses absent.

Morphology Leaves

Leaves paripinnate, drying yellow-green, petiole and rhachis up to 16 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets up to 12 × 6 cm., opposite, 2–3 (4)-jugate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering from near the base to a subacuminate apex, base variable, asymmetric, glabrous, subcoriaceous, venation closer and less prominent than in X. granatum.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers white or greenish-white in lax racemes or panicles of 3–7-flowered cymes; peduncle plus rhachis 5–14 cm. long; bracts minute, usually caducous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx

Calyx c. 2 mm. long, glabrous, lobed to beyond the middle, the lobes of irregular outline, often apiculate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla

Petals up to 7 × 4 mm., glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Staminal tube 4–5·5 mm. long, glabrous.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil

Ovary less than 1 mm. in diam., style 1 mm. long; disk situated beneath ovary.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit up to 8 cm. in diam., obscurely 4-sulcate.

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds

Seeds 3·6–7 cm. long.