Vatica odorata (PROSEA)
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Vatica odorata (Griffith) Sym.
- Protologue: Journ. Mal. Br. Roy. As. Soc. 19: 156 (1941).
Vernacular names
- Brunei: resak ranting kesat
- Indonesia: damar kunyit, rasak gunung, cangal padi (Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: resak ranting kesat, resak biabas (Sarawak)
- Philippines: Mindanao narig
- Cambodia: chrama:hs thma:(r), trâlak mosau, trâlak sbaèk
- Laos: (maiz) s'i:, s'i: da:n, s'i: püak ba:ng
- Thailand: phancham (central), yang-nu (northern), chan, khi- mot (eastern)
- Vietnam: táu trắng, làu táu, táu vỏ vàng.
Distribution
Southern Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, southern China, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the Philippines (Luzon, Leyte, Mindanao).
Uses
The timber is used as resak. The resin is possibly sometimes used as an inferior "damar rasak".
Observations
- A medium-sized to large tree, up to 40 m tall, with straight, cylindrical bole up to 20 m long and up to 70 cm in diameter and small buttresses.
- Leaves narrowly elliptical to ovate, (4-)8-16 cm × (1.5-)3-5.5 cm, with 11-15 pairs of secondary veins, glabrescent, petiole (3-)8-20 mm long.
- Inflorescences up to 7 cm long.
- Flower buds up to 8 mm long.
- Nut globose, up to 7 mm long, surrounded by 2 longer and 3 shorter fruit calyx lobes united at base in a cup up to 5 mm deep.
Three subspecies are distinguished:
- subsp. odorata (synonyms: Sunaptea odorata Griffith, Vatica faginea Dyer, Vatica curtisii King) distributed from Burma to Borneo, occurring scattered on dry ridges in more or less seasonal areas;
- subsp. mindanensis (Foxw.) P. Ashton (synonym: Vatica mindanensis Foxw.), common on ridges at 1000-1200 m altitude in non-seasonal areas of northern Borneo and the Philippines and differing in a longer petiole and leaf drying greyish;
- subsp. brevipetiolata Pham Hoang Hô from northern Vietnam, differing in having smaller petioles and leaves.
The wood has a density of 735-1060 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
30, 100, 102, 175, 235, 253, 318, 425, 484, 579, 628, 748.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
