3-433: Duabanga grandiflora ( Roxb. ex DC. ) Walpers Duabanga moluccana Blume Duabanga taylorii Jayaweera Duabanga is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species. Duabanga was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae , but it is now classified in its own monotypic subfamily Duabangoideae of
6-500: The Lythraceae . This Myrtales article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Duabanga grandiflora From its peculiar habit, Duabanga grandiflora (syn. D. sonneratioides ) is a singular feature in its native forests. The trunk is erect, 40–80 feet high, undivided but sometimes forking from the base. The lower limbs spread drooping from the trunk; these are long, slender, sparingly branched, and
9-493: The branches are four-angled, loosely covered with large spreading leaves . Since the leaves are arranged in two ranks, the slender branches resemble petioles , bearing pinnae of a compound leaf; the leaves are further often recurved, and are deep green above, and almost white beneath. The large blossoms expand in April, exhaling a rank odour reportedly resembling asafoetida when they first burst, but they become inodorous before
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