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Palaquium clarkeanum (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Palaquium clarkeanum]]'' King & Gamble</big>
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:Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74(2): 191 (1905).
== Observations ==
*A large tree up to 50 m tall, with columnar bole up to 130 cm in diameter and large plank buttresses; leaves .*Leaves clustered at tip of twigs, narrowly obovate to obovate, with slender transverse tertiary veins distinct beneath, densely brownish woolly beneath; flowers .*Flowers in 4-12-flowered clusters, borne on 30-45 mm long pedicels, yellowish-white; fruit .*Fruit oblong, 3.5-5 cm long, glabrous.  ''P.'' ''clarkeanum'' is an uncommon tree of primary lowland forest below 300 m altitude; it occurs scattered. The timber is heavy for nyatoh, with a density of about 820 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
102, 190, 581, 743, 779, 792.
== Main genus page ==
 
*[[Palaquium (PROSEA Timbers)|''Palaquium'' (Timbers)]]
 
== Authors ==
 
*R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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