Nephelium aculeatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Nephelium aculeatum Leenh.

Family: Sapindaceae

Distribution

Only known from Sabah (Borneo).

Uses

The sarcotesta around the seed is edible.

Observations

• Medium-sized tree.
• Leaves 4-jugate.
• Fruit an oblique-ellipsoid capsule, 3 cm × 2 cm × 1.75 cm, glabrous, fairly densely aculeate.

In secondary forest, fruiting in August.

Selected sources

• Leenhouts, P.W., 1986. A taxonomic revision of Nephelium (Sapindaceae). Blumea 31: 373-436.

• van Welzen, P.C., Lamb, A. & Wong, W.W.W., 1988. Edible Sapindaceae in Sabah. Nature Malaysiana 13: 10-25.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen