Dialium hydnocarpoides (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dialium hydnocarpoides de Wit

Protologue: Blumea 7: 320 (1953).

Synonyms

• Dialium praetermissum de Wit (1953).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as keranji.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree of up to 30 m tall, bole up to 45 cm in diameter and with prominent buttresses of up to 5 m high.
• Leaflets (11-)15-17(-19), (2.5-)3.5-6(-8.5) cm × (1.5-)2-3(-3.5) cm, brownish hairy beneath but glabrescent.
• Sepals 5, petals 0, stamens 2.
• Fruit subglobose, 1.5-2 cm in diameter.

D. hydnocarpoides is a comparatively rare species that occurs scattered in primary forests on yellow sandy loam soils at very low altitudes.

Selected sources

102, 146, 188, 587, 779.

Main genus page

• Dialium

Authors

J.P. Rojo (selection of species)