Lasianthus laevigatus Blume

64. Lasianthus laevigatus Blume View in CoL

Lasianthus laevigatus Blume (1826 View in CoL –1827) 998; Miq. (1857) 320; (1869) 247;Boerl.(1891) 140;Merr.(1921) 577; Bakh.f.(1965) 337. — Lectotype (designated here): Blume s.n. (lecto L, barcode L0000692 ). Paratypes: Blume s.n. (L, barcode L0000691 ), Blume s.n. (L, barcode L0000693 ), Blume s.n. (L, barcode L0000694 ), Java, Salak .

Shrubs, up to 5 m high, glabrous; branchlets terete, 2 –3 mm diam, dark-brown when dry. Leaves: blades oblong-lanceolate, 9–18 by 2–4.5 cm, coriaceous, apex cuspidate-acuminate, margin often reflexed and more or less undulate, base acuminate, midrib and nerves prominent on both surfaces, nerves 8–10 pairs, slender, ascending at an angle of over 60°, curved to the margin, nervules obscure above, distinct beneath, reticulate; petioles 1–2 cm long. Stipules triangular, c. 3 mm long, glabrous. Cymes pedunculate, glabrous; main peduncles 1–1.5 cm long; branches 5– 8 mm long; bracts subulate, 1– 2 mm long, minutely ciliate. Flowers sessile; calyx tube tubular-campanulate, c. 5 mm long, glabrous, calyx lobes 4, lanceolate, 5 –6 mm long, glabrous; corolla 7–8 mm long, tube glabrous, lobes 6, glabrous outside, densely floccose inside; stamens 6. Drupes turbinate, c. 5 – 6 mm diam, glabrous, conspicuously 6-ridged; pyrenes 6.

Distribution — Endemic to Indonesia (Java).

Habitat & Ecology — From lowland rainforests to montane forests between 700–1400 m altitude. Flowering in March; fruiting in April.