Canarium rigidum (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Canarium rigidum (Blume) Zipp. ex Miq.
- Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat. 1(2): 648 (1859).
Synonyms
Canarium polyphyllum K. Schumann (1889), Canarium ledermannii Lauterb. (1920).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: hoddjai (Irian Jaya, Manokwari).
Distribution
Northern and north-western New Guinea.
Uses
The wood is used as kedondong, also for building prahus.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 45 cm in diameter, buttressed, bark surface grey; stipules absent; leaves with 7-25 leaflets, leaflets shortly acuminate to gradually long-acuminate at apex, margin entire, glabrous or minutely pubescent on the midrib above and main veins below, with 11-24 pairs of secondary veins which are prominent below; inflorescence axillary, laxly paniculate; male flowers 6 mm long, female ones 7.5 mm long, stamens 6; fruit ellipsoid, acute, circular to rounded triangular in cross-section, 40-50 mm × 20-25 mm, glabrous. C. rigidum occurs in primary and secondary forest, up to 1200 m altitude.
Selected sources
162, 342, 366.
