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Calophyllum inophyllum

Alexandrian laurel, mastwood
Habit Trees usually with relatively short trunks and spreading branches, 7–25(–35) m.
Leaves

petiole broadened and flattened toward blade, 10–25 mm;

blade bright green, elliptic-oblong to obovate, 8–20 × 4.5–12 cm, base cuneate to rounded, finally decurrent, margins ± undulate, apex rounded to retuse, lateral veins prominent on both surfaces.
Inflorescences

in distal axils, 3–12-flowered.
Flowers

2 cm diam.;

sepals reflexed, outer pair orbiculate, 7–8 mm, inner pair obovate, ± petaloid, 10 mm;

petals 4, white, obovate, 9–12 mm;

ovary globose.
Drupes

green, globose to obovoid, 2.5–5 × 2–4 cm;

stone subspheric, smooth.
2n

= 32.

Calophyllum inophyllum
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Wetlands, especially coastal
Elevation 0–20 m [0–70 ft]
Distribution
from FNA
FL; s Asia (India, Sri Lanka); e Africa; Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar); Pacific Islands [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Calophyllum inophyllum occurs in southern Florida; it is widely planted and possibly naturalized. The smaller-flowered C. antillana Jacquin has also been recorded as seminaturalized on the keys.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Calophyllaceae > Calophyllum
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 513. (1753)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 65. Treatment author: Norman K. B. Robson.
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