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[[File:Map Bischofia javanica.gif|thumb|distribution in Africa (wildplanted and naturalized)]][[File:Linedrawing Bischofia javanica.jpg|thumb|1, tree habit; 2, male flower; 3, female flower with calyx removed; 4, fruiting twig.]][[File:Bischofia javanica HG Richter rlsStarr hawaii 2.jpg|thumb|tree (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica HG Richter tlsStarr hawaii 6.jpg|thumb|bark (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica HG Richter xsStarr hawaii 1.jpg|thumb|leaves (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 15.jpg|thumb|fruits (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 24.jpg|thumb|fruits (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 3.jpg|thumb|fruits (Plants of Hawaii)]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 4HG Richter xs.jpg|thumb|wood in transverse section]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 5HG Richter tls.jpg|thumb|wood in tangential section]][[File:Bischofia javanica Starr hawaii 6HG Richter rls.jpg|thumb|wood in radial section]]
<big>''[[Bischofia javanica]]'' Blume</big>
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== Vernacular names ==
*Bishopwood, Java cedar, Javanese bishopwood, toog tree, koka (En).
== Origin and geographic distribution ==
== Description ==
*Evergreen or deciduous, dioecious, medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(–50) m tall; bole straight or poorly shaped, branchless part usually short but sometimes up to 20 m long, up to 80(–170) cm in diameter, sometimes with steep buttresses up to 3 m high; bark surface fissured and scaly with small thick shaggy scales, reddish brown to purplish brown, inner bark fibrous, spongy, pink, exuding a red sap; crown dense and rounded. *Leaves arranged spirally, compound with 3 leaflets, glabrous; stipules oblong-triangular, 7–22 mm long, papery, falling early; petiole 8–20 cm long; petiolules long and slender, longest in terminal leaflet; leaflets elliptical to ovate, 6–16 cm × 3–10 cm, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, margin finely toothed, pinnately veined. *Inflorescence an axillary panicle up to 27 cm long. *Flowers unisexual, regular, 5-merous, small, greenish, corolla and disk absent; male flowers with sepals fused at base, hooded, stamens free, opposite to the calyx lobes, ovary rudimentary; female flowers with sepals falling early, stamens strongly rudimentary, ovary superior, globose, 3(–4)-celled, style short, with 3 long stigmas. *Fruit a globose drupe 1–1.5 cm in diameter, bluish black, with a horny to leathery skin and fleshy pulp, 3–6-seeded. *Seeds oblong to obovoid, c. 5 mm long, brown. *Seedling with epigeal germination; cotyledons leafy, petiolate; first few leaves simple, subsequent ones with 1 leaflet, and from about the 10<sup><font size="1">th</font></sup> leaf with 3 leaflets.
== Other botanical information ==
== Author(s) ==
* L.P.A. Oyen , PROTA Network Office Europe, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 341, 6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands
== Correct citation of this article ==