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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Manilkara celebica H.J. Lam

Protologue: Blumea 4: 331 (1941).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: timbuwolo, amibolo, komea (Sulawesi).

Distribution

Eastern Sulawesi.

Uses

The timber is possibly used for construction.

Observations

A medium-sized tree, up to 27 m tall, with bole up to 75 cm in diameter; leaves clustered at apex of twigs, sparsely and appressed hairy beneath but glabrescent; flower buds club-shaped, pedicels gradually incrassate, calyx up to 10 mm long, ovary without a disk; fruit pyriform to globose, up to 2.5 cm long. M. celebica is closely related to M. kauki. It is locally common, and occurs in dry forest up to 300 m altitude.

Selected sources

731.