Mangifera macrocarpa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Mangifera macrocarpa Blume

Family: Anacardiaceae

Synonyms

• Mangifera fragrans Maingay ex Hook.f.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: gompohr, kipari (Java), haju (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: macang api, macang lavid (Peninsular), kayu basinku (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Cambodia, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java and Borneo. Sometimes also cultivated.

Uses

The fruits are large and edible.

Observations

• Tree, up to 37 m tall.
• Leaves linear to lanceolate, 9-60 cm × 1-5 cm, chartaceous.
• Stamens 5, 1 fertile.
• Fruit an obliquely, broadly oblong-globose drupe, 8-12 cm long, flesh yellow, fibrous.

In lowlands and on hill ridges in primary forests, flowering between October and January, fruiting between October and April, but flowering occurs very rarely. The phenology needs better investigation.

Selected sources

• Bompard, J.M. & Kostermans, A.J.G.H., 1985. Wild Mangifera species in Kalimantan, Indonesia. In: Mehra, K.L. & Sastrapradja, S. (Editors): Proceedings of the International Symposium on South East Asian Plant Genetic Resources, 20-24 August 1985, Jakarta. Lembaga Biologi Nasional LIPI, Bogor. pp. 172-174.

• Mukherjee, S.K., 1985. Systematic and ecogeographic studies on crop genepools 1. Mangifera L. IBPGR, Rome. 86 pp.

• van Steenis, C.G.G.J. et al. (Editors), 1950-. Flora Malesiana. Series 1. Vol. 1, 4-10. Centre for Research and Development in Biology, Bogor, Indonesia, and Rijksherbarium, Leiden, the Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen