Terminalia brassii (Brown terminalia

Terminalia brassii – Brown terminalia.

The species is found in the Solomon Islands, New Britain, Bougainville, and New Ireland.

The large trees are found in fresh water swamps, e.g., Empress Augusta Bay Bougainville and riverine alluvial plains. It is a large canopy tree (20-50 m high); Bole cylindrical (45-200 cm diam.); straight (sometimes branching from near base); buttresses present (branched near ground); spines absent; aerial roots absent; stilt roots present (in very swampy conditions); bark brown, rough, scaly, or flaky (in large, long scales).

Terminalia brassii Buin.

Photo credit Mark Coode 0407-03.

Source. Barry Conn (NSW) & Kipiro Damas (LAE). Guide to trees of Papua New Guinea. Copyright held by the authors, National Herbarium of New South Wales, and Papua New Guinea National Herbarium.