Scaphium longiflorum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Scaphium longiflorum Ridley

Protologue: Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Straits Br. 73: 143 (1916).

Synonyms

• Scaphium velutinum Kosterm. (1953).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia; perhaps also East Kalimantan.

Uses

The timber is used as kembang semangkok.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with shallowly fissured bole up to 70 cm in diameter and fairly large, thin buttresses.
• Leaves oblong to obovate, 10-23 cm × 6-12 cm, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, blunt to rounded, sometimes shortly acuminate at apex, with 7-10 pairs of secondary veins, velvety yellowish pubescent to glabrous beneath, petiole up to 8.5 cm long.
• Fruit up to 15 cm long.
• Seed c. 18 mm long, hairy.

Unlike other Scaphium species, S. longiflorum occurs scattered in lowland swamp forest. The density of the timber is about 515 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

190, 376, 431, 779.

Main genus page

• Scaphium

Authors

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