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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction
List of species


Pittosporum pullifolium Burkill

Family: Pittosporaceae

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The seed is a source of dye in Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea.

Observations

A shrub or small tree, in the lowland often hemi-epiphytic, up to 5 m tall, rarely a medium-sized tree, with simple, stiffly coriaceous leaves more or less in pseudo-whorls, 5-merous flowers arranged in (pseudo-)terminal racemes, and an ellipsoid capsule. The seeds are coated by a resinous, viscid, dark reddish fluid. The species is common in subalpine forests at 3200-3800 m altitude, but can also be found in rain forests or mossy forests at lower altitudes, 1200-2100 m, rarely as low as 100 m.

Selected sources

43, 47.