''Chisocheton velutinus'' is a tree in the family
Meliaceae
Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales.
They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...
. The
specific epithet
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' is from the
Latin
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meaning 'velvety', referring to the
indumentum
In biology, an indumentum (Latin, literally: "garment") is a covering of trichomes (fine "hairs") on a plant Davis, Peter Hadland and Heywood, Vernon Hilton (1963) ''Principles of angiosperm taxonomy'' Van Nostrandpage, Princeton, New Jersey, pa ...
of the leaves and fruits.
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Description
The tree grows up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The flowers are cream-coloured. The fruits are yellow turning red, round, up to in diameter.[
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Distribution and habitat
''Chisocheton velutinus'' is endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Borneo
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. Its habitat is rain forests from sea-level to altitude.[
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References
velutinus
Endemic flora of Borneo
Trees of Borneo
Plants described in 2003
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