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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sindora galedupa Prain

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66: 483 (1897).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kayu galedupa, ay goa (Moluccas), mobingo (Sulawesi).

Distribution

Sulawesi and the Moluccas.

Uses

The timber is possibly used as sepetir.

Observations

A medium-sized tree; leaves with 6-8 leaflets, leaflets 3.5-12.5 cm × 2.5-6 cm, thinly leathery, puberulous beneath when young but glabrescent; flowers with c. 7 mm long densely puberulous calyx lobes, but with a glabrous margin and lacking spines; pod circular to broadly elliptical, up to 6(-9.5) cm long, smooth and without spines. S. galedupa grows in forest and on forest edges from sea-level to 120 m altitude. Not much is known about this species.

Selected sources

186.