Description Générale

Shrub or tree 2-10 m high, dioecious; oil glands comparatively unconspicuous. Young branchlets sparsely puberulent to pubescent or velutinous or rarely nearly glabrous; terminal bud pubescent or velutinous.

Répartition en Nouvelle-Calédonie

Restricted to the Grande-Terre, where it ranges from Col d?Amoss southeast to Mt. Aoupinié and also occurs on Plateau de Dogny.
Récoltes : Plateau et Mt. Dogny, 900 m, 4/8/1965 - haute vallée de la Tchamba, forêt de Thalweg, 150 m, 10/8/1965 - vallée de Pouaï (entre Tao et la tribu de Panié), 20-50 m, 10/11/1965 - haute vallée de l?Amoa, 300-500 m, 23/9/1966 - haute Pouembout, pente W du Mt. Katepouenda, 600-700 m, 15/5/1967 - haute Diahot, forêt de Tendé, 500-600 m, 30/9/1968 - Col d?Amos, Nakaoun, 450 m, 16/2/1971 - Pouébo, Ouangati, 800-900 m, 26/5/1971 - Ponérihouen, Mt. Aoupinié, 900-1020 m, 16/5/1973 - Tiwaka, Moindip, 750 m, 25/10/1977 - Hienghène, crête Tindo-Coulna, 500 m, 25 /5/1978 - Mt. Colnett (pente E), 1000 m, Nov. 1981 - Mt. Panié above Haut Coulna, 1250-1530 m, 1/11/1999 - Mandjélia, 650 m, 10/9/1984 - Oubatche, 600 m, 26/12/1902 - haute Néounin, 400 m, 6/8/1978.

Habitat

Recorded mostly from forests (usually rain forest), rarely from degraded maquis;

Substrat

Usually on schistose terrains, rarely on grauwackes.

Feuille

Leaves trifoliolate (occasional leaves unifoliolate), 12-57 cm long; petiole sparsely puberulent to pubescent, exalate, 4-18 cm long; petiolules obsolete or in terminal leaflet up to 10 mm long; blades puberulent to pubescent at least on midrib and secondary veins below or rarely glabrous or nearly so, elliptic to obovate, or in lateral leaflets ovate, 5.5-39 × 3-20 cm, base in lateral leaflets cordate to rounded or acute, inequilateral, in terminal leaflet cuneate to attenuate, margin entire, apex rounded to acute or ± abruptly short-acuminate, sometimes apiculate or emarginate, secondary veins plane or impressed above, 10-18 per side.

Phénologie (Fleur)

Inflorescences puberulent to pubescent or velutinous, many-flowered, 3.5-19 × 1-10 cm; pedicels 0.3-1 mm long (0.3-2.5 mm long in fruit). Flowers male or female sepals puberulent to pubescent abaxially, 0.5-1 mm long; petals white or pale yellow, sparsely puberulent to pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, 1-2 mm long, persistent or subpersistent in fruit; stamens 4, in male flowers 0.7-1.5 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm long in female flowers, filaments glabrous, anthers 0.3-0.4 mm long; gynoecium in male flowers 0.7-1.5 mm long (0.3-0.4 mm long in female flowers), ovaries pubescent, 1-ovuled, style glabrous to pubescent, including stigma 0.5-1 mm long.

Fruits

Drupes at maturity white, glabrous or nearly so (abortive carpels pubescent), 2.5-3 mm long, often beaked. Seeds solitary, 2-2.5 mm long.

Particularité

Syn. Euodia ignambiensis Guillaumin, Euodia ignambiense Guillaumin