Sindora supa Merrill, Fabaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  Evaluate, score: 5 (Go to the risk assessment).

Common name(s): [more details]

Filipino: supa

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Tree to 15 m tall. Stem puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves: stipules leafy, 1 cm long, acute; petiole 16-25 mm long, with prominent, wrinkled base; rachis 6-7 cm long; leaflets 3 pairs, opposite, elliptic, 4-7.5 cm long, 2.7-4 cm wide, rounded to shallowly retuse, penninerved and reticulate between, coriaceous, glabrous except puberulous abaxial midrib. Panicle axillary or terminal, 10-15 cm long; rachis pubescent; bracts 4 mm long; pedicels 2 mm long, 2-bracteate. Receptacle of calyx short; lobes 4, thick, 1 cm long, tomentose outside with yellowish hairs and a few, short, pubescent prickles in upper half, densely hirsute inside. Petal as long as calyx, appressed-tomentose on lower margins. Stamens: two 2 cm long with anthers c. 3 mm long; remainder c. 1 cm long and probably not fertile; filaments hairy at base, glabrous above. Pistil c. 22 mm long; ovary and base of style densely hirsute; stigma slightly enlarged. Pod broadly ovate, woody, 4-5 cm long, covered with robust prickles to 5 mm long, rusty-pubescent, glabrescent. Seeds 4, ovate, black"  (Flora of Australia online).

Habitat/ecology:  In the Philippines (native): "in forest at low and medium altitudes and limestone ridges  (ASEAN Tropical Plant Database).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  "Native to Tayabas Province, Luzon, Philippines"  (Flora of Australia online).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Philippines Philippine Islands	Philippine Islands	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011) Luzon, Mindoro

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	Australia (continental)	introduced invasive	Randall, R. P. (2007) (p. 448)
Australia Australia (continental)	Queensland	introduced invasive cultivated	Australian Biological Resources Study (2011) Possibly naturalised in northern Queensland.

Additional information:
Information and photos at the ASEAN Tropical Plant Database.
Information from James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished.

Additional online information about Sindora supa is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Sindora supa as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Sindora supa may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Australian Biological Resources Study. 2011. Flora of Australia Online. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.

Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. CRC for Australian Weed Management, Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia. 524 pp.
Also:  Searchable online database at http://weeds.cbit.uq.edu.au/.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.