- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Soapberries, Cashews, Mahoganies, and Allies
- ›Cashew Family
- ›cashews, sumacs, and allies
- ›Gluta
Gluta laxiflora
Gluta laxiflora is a tree of Borneo in the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. The specific epithet laxiflora is from the Latin meaning 'loose flowers', referring to the arrangement of the flowers.
From the article Gluta laxiflora on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Gluta laxiflora grows as a tree up to 20 metres (70 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm (12 in). Its dark grey bark is scaly. The large leaves measure up to 19.5 cm (8 in) long. The ellipsoid fruits measure up to 9 cm (4 in) long and are coloured brown or reddish brown.
Range & habitat
Gluta laxiflora is endemic to Borneo. Its habitat is lowland mixed dipterocarp forests.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Gluta laxiflora in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 898202.