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== Observations ==
 
== Observations ==
  
A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs slightly 4-angled or rounded, terminal bud plump, 4.5-7 mm long; leaves ovate to elliptical, 5-13 cm long, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, with (7-)9-14 veins per 5 mm; inflorescences axillary, unbranched, up to 11-flowered; flowers with 4 or 8 tepals; fruit ellipsoid, 26-33 mm long, with thin, compact outer layer. ''C.''  ''fraseri'' grows in hill forest or montane rain forest at 750-1300 m altitude and is only very locally common.
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*A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs slightly 4-angled or rounded, terminal bud plump, 4.5-7 mm long.
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*Leaves ovate to elliptical, 5-13 cm long, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, with (7-)9-14 veins per 5 mm.
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*Inflorescences axillary, unbranched, up to 11-flowered; flowers with 4 or 8 tepals.
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*Fruit ellipsoid, 26-33 mm long, with thin, compact outer layer.
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''C. fraseri'' grows in hill forest or montane rain forest at 750-1300 m altitude and is only very locally common.
  
 
== Selected sources ==
 
== Selected sources ==
  
 
648, 779.
 
648, 779.
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== Main genus page ==
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*[[Calophyllum (PROSEA)|''Calophyllum'']]
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== Authors ==
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R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
  
  
 
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
 
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
 
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[[Category:PROSEA]]

Latest revision as of 17:41, 27 March 2016

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction
List of species


Calophyllum fraseri M.R. Henderson & Wyatt-Smith

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 15: 344 (1956).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as bintangor.

Observations

  • A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs slightly 4-angled or rounded, terminal bud plump, 4.5-7 mm long.
  • Leaves ovate to elliptical, 5-13 cm long, cuneate at base, acuminate at apex, with (7-)9-14 veins per 5 mm.
  • Inflorescences axillary, unbranched, up to 11-flowered; flowers with 4 or 8 tepals.
  • Fruit ellipsoid, 26-33 mm long, with thin, compact outer layer.

C. fraseri grows in hill forest or montane rain forest at 750-1300 m altitude and is only very locally common.

Selected sources

648, 779.

Main genus page

Authors

R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)