Artocarpus altissimus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus altissimus (Miq.) J.J. Smith

Protologue: Icon. Bogor. 3: 79, t. 233 (1907).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: lempato, kelutum, kelutum ketan (Sumatra).

Distribution

Sumatra and West Kalimantan.

Uses

The timber has been used as terap or keledang for large canoes, house and bridge building and wharves.

Observations

• A medium-sized deciduous tree up to 30 m tall, bole straight, branchless for up to 20 m, up to 300 cm in diameter, with prominent buttresses.
• Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, base shallowly cordate, with a glandular-crenate margin, puberulent above, sparsely pubescent on the veins below, with 5-9 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul.
• Male head ellipsoid or cylindrical, 2-3 mm across, on a 5-7 mm long peduncle; styles in female head deeply bifid; syncarp unknown.

A. altissimus occurs in evergreen forest up to 550 m altitude. The wood is reported to be resistant to teredos. The density of the wood is 370-490 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

234, 263, 474, 577.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)