Phoebe tavoyana (Meisn.) Hooker (1886: 143)

Chakrabarty, Tapas, Kumar, Anand & Ghoshal, Partha Pratim, 2023, A revision of the genus Phoebe (Lauraceae) in the Indo-Burmese region, Phytotaxa 606 (1), pp. 29-42 : 39-40

8. Phoebe tavoyana (Meisn.) Hooker (1886: 143) .

Type:— MYANMAR. Tavoy, 1839, fl., C.S.P. Parish 151 (holotype: K000575990, digital image!) .

Basionym:— Machilus tavoyana Meisner (1864: 41) .

Heterotypic synonym:— Phoebe pubescens sensu Kurz (1877: 290) , non P. pubescens (Nees) Nees von Esenbeck (1836: 107) .

Trees, 9–15 m high; bud scale scars in dense rings around twigs; young shoots fulvous or greyish or brown tomentose; branchlets greyish or tawny tomentellous to scattered puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves evenly spaced and also more or less clustered at the ends of the twigs, narrowly oblong-elliptic, lanceolate-oblong or occasionally oblong-oblanceolate, 12–47 × 2.5–11 cm, cuneate-attenuate at base, caudate-acuminate (acumen 5–50 mm long) at apex, membranous (especially when young) to chartaceous, scattered puberulous on midrib (when young) to glabrous above, greyish or tawny tomentellous to scattered puberulous on major veins beneath, blackish, brown or greenish or dark reddish brown above when dry, greenish or brown or coppery and often glaucescent beneath; lateral veins slender, (8–)10–16 pairs, prominent above, raised beneath; tertiary veins obscure to faint above, faint to prominent beneath; veinlets obscure above, obscure to faint beneath; petioles 10–50 mm long, scattered greyish or tawny puberulous, tomentellous to glabrous. Panicles 8–24 cm long, very slender pedunculate, few- to many-branched; axis and branches scattered greyish, fulvous or tawny puberulous to tomentellous. Flowers: pedicels 3–5 mm long, sparsely or scattered greyish or fulvous puberulous; tepals broadly ovate, ovate-oblong or oblong-elliptic, 3–5 × 1.6–2.5 mm, scattered greyish or fulvous puberulous to tomentellous outside; stamens 2–2.5 mm long; staminodes ca. 1.5 mm long; ovary subglobose, ca. 1.6 mm in diam.; style ca. 2 mm long; stigma discoid. Fruits ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.8–1.7 × 0.6–1 cm; fruiting pedicels 5–8 mm long, not or slightly thickened, glabrous; fruiting tepals 4–6 mm long.

Phenology: —Flowering in February to December and fruiting in April to January.

Habitat: —Common in tropical evergreen forests up to 1500 m elevation.

Distribution: — Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Specimens examined:— CAMBODIA. Kompong Cham, Kralien , 17 December 1965, fl., J.E. Vidal 4743B (L.1812360) . CHINA. Hainan, 7 August 1933, fl., H.Y. Liang 62470 (CINC-V-0008375) . LAOS. Oudomxay province, Namor dist., Ai Nasavang village , 24 March 2002, fl., Kham Korn 392 (L.4310124) . MALAYSIA. Ulu Muda FR., North Kedah, 19 January 1969, fr., Y.C. Chan FRI 6741 (L.1812332) . MYANMAR. Zwegabin , February 1938, fl., F.G. Dickason 7021 ( CAL) . Pyinmana , March 1938, fl., F.G. Dickason 7127 (CAL, L.1812358). Tenasserim, s.d., fl., Helfer, Kew Distrib. No. 4260 (CAL herb. acc. no. 385143, P02009119, P02009120, U.1417551). Tenasserim, Mooltar, 25 April 1877, fr., G. Gallatly 906 (CAL herb. acc. nos. 385064, 385070, 385071). Chu hu plains, 27 April 1877, fr., G. Gallatly 943 (CAL herb. acc. nos. 385065, 385066, 385067, 385068, 385069). Bhamo, 18 May 1910, fr., G.E.S. Cubitt 598 ( CAL) . Kowpok , 1912, fr., A. Meebold 17018 ( CAL) . Toungoo, West Swa reserve, Natzi stream, 11 March 1914, fl., C.G. Rogers 368 ( CAL) . Maymyo dist., Nyaungni , 6 May 1925, fl., C.E. Parkinson 655 ( CAL) . Pegu, Binedah forests, February 1862, fl., D. Brandis 921 ( CAL) . Pegu, Touqueqhat , s.d., fl., W.S. Kurz 979 (CAL [3 sheets]); ibid., immat. fr., W.S. Kurz 979 (CAL herb. acc. no. 385156) . Pegu, without locality, 7 February 1871, fl., W.S. Kurz 2421 (CAL [2 sheets]). Tavoy , November 1900, fr., S. Mokim 291 (CAL [6 sheets]) . THAILAND. Nakhon Si Thammarat, Sichun, Wang Dong waterfall, 11 February 2005, fl., Kyle Williams et al. 1383 (L.3908021) . VIETNAM. Lam Dong province, Baoloc dist., Dai Lao forest , ca. 19 km SW Baoloc city, 29 April 2008, fr., D. Djendoel Soejarto et al. 14051 (L.3906143) .