taxonID	type	description	language	source
677687C13505FFDCFCFFB08894A2FD34.taxon	description	Shrubs to shrubby trees, mainly monoecious; without latex. Indumentum simple hairs, sericeous or hirsute, often most parts glabrescent. Stipules absent, but axillary bud scales at base of side branches and inflorescences resemble stipules; latter ovate, glabrous (to hairy), late caducous. Leaves spiral, simple, glandless; petiole short, not pulvinate; blade sometimes basally with 4 or more papillae or 2 stipule-like stipellae, these often obscured by hairs; base usually slightly oblique, margin (sub) entire, penninerved. Inflorescences terminal (or terminal on short axillary branches) raceme-like thyrses, with per node subumbellate groups of flowers; bisexual with staminate flowers above and pistillate flowers below or unisexual; bracts absent, though usually new leaves developing at lower nodes. Staminate flowers pedicellate, with abscission zone in lower third or halfway; sepals (4 –) 5 (– 6), basally connected, imbricate, membranous, margin entire; petals (4 –) 5 (– 6), free, shorter than sepals, membranous; disc glands (4 –) 5 (– 6); stamens 14 – 24 (variability as observed in Thailand, unknown for com- plete range), filaments free (to adnate to each other and to disc when young), flat, tapering towards apex, anthers basifixed, 2 - thecate, opening latrorsely with longitudinal slits; pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers pedicellate; sepals 4 – 6, triangular, persistent, often accrescent in fruit (not in Thailand); petals often absent, sometimes 1 – 5 present; disc lobes 5 – 6, often appearing as lobed ring; ovary (2 –) 3 - locular, ovules single per locule; stigmas sessile, free, bifid. Fruits capsules, lobed or subglobose, septicidally dehiscent into 2 - valved cocci; septa thickened above attachment of seeds; columella persistent. Seeds brown; ecarunculate to carunculate. Distribution — Circa twelve species in tropical Asia from India to China (Hainan) to the Malay Peninsula and the Andaman Islands, also one species in the Philippines. Two species in Malesia of which one uncertain (see under B. andamanica).	en	van Welzen, P. C. (2015): A revision of the Malesian species of Blachia (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea 59 (3): 163-166, DOI: 10.3767/000651915X687831, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651915x687831
677687C13504FFDEFCFEB19F94D3FB96.taxon	description	Blachia philippinensis Merr. (1909) 277; Pax & K. Hoffm. (1911) 285; Merr. (1923) 455. — Lectotype (designated here): Curran FB 4128 (holo L; iso K), Philippines, Palawan, near Puerto Princesa. (Syntypes: Curran & Merritt FB 8369 (US), Philippines, Luzon, Pangasinan Prov.; Merritt & Darling FB 13829 (US), Philippines, Luzon, Ilocos Norte Prov., Cape Bojeador.) Blachia andamanica auct. non (Kurz) Hook. f.: Airy Shaw (1983) 10.	en	van Welzen, P. C. (2015): A revision of the Malesian species of Blachia (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea 59 (3): 163-166, DOI: 10.3767/000651915X687831, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651915x687831
677687C13504FFDEFCFEB19F94D3FB96.taxon	distribution	Distribution — Philippines (Palawan, Luzon). Habitat & Ecology — Along edge of forest, lowland mixed forest along river, soil clay. Altitude: 300 ‒ 450 m. Flowering: February to April, September; fruiting: February, August. Vernacular name — Pañgapien (Iloko / Ilokana; Merrill 1923). Note — The specimen Loher 4642 from the Philippines is the only specimen seen so far that has ovaries completely hairy instead of only hairy in the lower half. This specimen still has relatively small leaves, petioles with corky transverse cracks and the apices of the laminas are acute to acuminate.	en	van Welzen, P. C. (2015): A revision of the Malesian species of Blachia (Euphorbiaceae). Blumea 59 (3): 163-166, DOI: 10.3767/000651915X687831, URL: https://doi.org/10.3767/000651915x687831
