Macaranga lowii
King ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 453. 1887.
Asm.: Noga-jegru, Phungi.
Trees, 15 - 30 m tall; stem slightly fluted. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, truncate or narrowly cordate at base, subentire with distant obscure glands along margins, acuminate at apex, 5 - 15 x 2 - 6 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, hirsute on nerves and minutely gland-dotted with orbicular scales beneath, with 2 distinct glands at base near the petiole-apex; petioles 1 - 5 cm long; stipules subulate or linear-lanceolate, scale-like, 3 - 8 mm long. Male flowers: 2.5 - 3 mm across, sessile, clustered in bract-axils, arranged on slender 15 - 25 cm long racemes (sometimes branched); bracts triangular, concave, 3 - 4 x 1 - 1.5 mm; sepals 3, orbicular to ovate-orbicular, 1 - 2 mm across, glandular-hispidulous; stamens 15 - 20; filaments free, 0.5 - 0.6 mm long; anthers 4-lobed. Female flowers: 4 - 5 mm across, sessile, 1 - 9 together in each bract, arranged distantly on 10 - 15 cm long racemes or often branched panicles; peduncles 8 - 12 cm long, pubescent; bracts foliaceous; calyx-lobes 6, linear-lanceolate, 4 - 6 mm long, hirsute; ovary 2-loculed, 4 - 5 mm across, echinate; styles 2 or 3, filiform, 8 - 12 mm long, recurved. Fruits 2-lobed, 12 - 18 mm across, puberulous, echinate; seeds globose, 5 - 6 mm across, smooth.
Fl. Feb. - April; Fr. June - Dec.
Distrib. India: Evergreen primary forests, in disturbed Dipterocarp forests, at low altitudes. Assam.
Myanmar, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.
Trees, 15 - 30 m tall; stem slightly fluted. Leaves oblong-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, truncate or narrowly cordate at base, subentire with distant obscure glands along margins, acuminate at apex, 5 - 15 x 2 - 6 cm, thinly coriaceous, glabrous above, hirsute on nerves and minutely gland-dotted with orbicular scales beneath, with 2 distinct glands at base near the petiole-apex; petioles 1 - 5 cm long; stipules subulate or linear-lanceolate, scale-like, 3 - 8 mm long. Male flowers: 2.5 - 3 mm across, sessile, clustered in bract-axils, arranged on slender 15 - 25 cm long racemes (sometimes branched); bracts triangular, concave, 3 - 4 x 1 - 1.5 mm; sepals 3, orbicular to ovate-orbicular, 1 - 2 mm across, glandular-hispidulous; stamens 15 - 20; filaments free, 0.5 - 0.6 mm long; anthers 4-lobed. Female flowers: 4 - 5 mm across, sessile, 1 - 9 together in each bract, arranged distantly on 10 - 15 cm long racemes or often branched panicles; peduncles 8 - 12 cm long, pubescent; bracts foliaceous; calyx-lobes 6, linear-lanceolate, 4 - 6 mm long, hirsute; ovary 2-loculed, 4 - 5 mm across, echinate; styles 2 or 3, filiform, 8 - 12 mm long, recurved. Fruits 2-lobed, 12 - 18 mm across, puberulous, echinate; seeds globose, 5 - 6 mm across, smooth.
Fl. Feb. - April; Fr. June - Dec.
Distrib. India: Evergreen primary forests, in disturbed Dipterocarp forests, at low altitudes. Assam.
Myanmar, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.
