Palaquium herveyi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium herveyi King & Gamble

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74(2): 197 (1905).

Synonyms

• Croixia herveyi (King & Gamble) Baehni (1965).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, with columnar bole up to 60 cm in diameter and plank buttresses.
• Leaves fairly densely clustered at tip of twigs, obovate (sometimes elliptical), with slender, inconspicuous, transverse tertiary veins, sparsely puberulous or almost glabrous, but glaucous beneath.
• Flowers in 2-6-flowered clusters, borne on c. 3 mm long pedicels (c. 10 mm in fruit).
• Fruit globose to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm long, glabrous.

P. herveyi occurs scattered in lowland primary forest up to 350 m altitude and is locally common. The density of the timber is about 700 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 102, 190, 743, 779, 792.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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