Ryparosa javanica - Java Ryparosa Tree

Java Ryparosa Tree is an evergreen tree, about 5-20 m tall. Trunk is buttressed or bumpy when old, bark grayish brown or pale brown, smooth. Young shoots and branchlets are striped, warty, brownish appressed finely velvet-hairy. Leaves are simple, alternate, variable, lanceshaped-ovate to obovate-oblong, about 12-30 x 7.5-20 cm across, base wedge-shaped to blunt, margin entire or curled, tip pointed to shallow tapering, papery, dark green, shining and hairless above, paler beneath, lateral veins 6-7, on either side of the midrib. Leaf-stalk is slender, about 1.5-6 cm long. Flowers are unisexual - Male flowers are pale yellow, about 4-5 mm across, solitary or 2-3 in racemes, with rusty-woolly flower-cluster-stalks, about 8-30 cm long, flower-stalks ferrous woolly about 2-3 mm long, sepal-cup rusty woolly when young, ovate-spherical, tip tapering, about 2-2.5 mm long, petals 4-9, overlapping, lanceshaped-ovate, slightly fused at the base, hairless inside, densely brownish velvet-hairy outside, about 3-3.5 x 1.5-2 mm long, epipetalous scales about 1.5 mm long. Stamens are fused in a column, staminal tube about 3.5 mm long. Female flowers arise solitary or 2-4 in much shorter in leaf-axils racemes, sepal-cup and petals similar to male flowers but bigger. Fruit is a berry, almost spherical-oblong, about 1.5 x 2.5 cm across, warty. Java Ryparosa Tree is native to Andaman Islands to W. Malesia, New Guinea to N. Queensland.