Artocarpus glaucus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus glaucus Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 483 (1825).

• Artocarpus glaucescens Trécul (1847),
• Artocarpus zollingerianus Miq. (1847),
• Artocarpus denisonianus King (1888).

• Indonesia: tiwu landu (Sundanese, Java), sembir (Java), tampang buwah (Palembang, Sumatra)
• Malaysia: nangka pipit (Peninsular), pudau paya (Sarawak).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

The wood is used as terap or keledang, e.g. for house building.

• A fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 115 cm in diameter, buttresses prominent or absent.
• Leaves ovate to obovate, base cuneate to rounded, glabrous above, venation appressed puberulent below, with 8-15 pairs of secondary veins, stipules non-amplexicaul.
• Male head narrowly oblong or clavate, 5-6 mm across, on a 1-3 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp subglobose, often shallowly lobed, up to 3 cm across, nearly smooth to papillate, shortly pubescent.

A. glaucus is generally uncommon and occurs in evergreen lowland and hill forest, sometimes along rivers or in peat swamps, up to 750(-1200) m altitude. The density of the wood is 610-950 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

69, 234, 235, 263, 474, 705.

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)