Manilkara kauki (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Manilkara kauki (L.) Dubard

Protologue: Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, sér. 3, 3: 9 (1915).

Mimusops kauki L. (1753).

• Indonesia: sawo kecik (Java, Bali), kayu sawo (Java), sabo (Bali)
• Malaysia: sawah, sawai, sawau (Peninsular)
• Papua New Guinea: sner
• Thailand: lamut-thai, lamut-sida (central)
• Vietnam: viết.

Burma, Indo-China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, throughout Indonesia (except Kalimantan), Papua New Guinea and north-eastern Australia.

The timber is used for construction and particularly for furniture and carving; it is also used for turnery and mills. The fruits are edible. This species is used as rootstock for sapodilla ( Manilkara zapota ). Flowers and seeds are used medicinally. The trees are planted as fruit trees and ornamentals, often near palaces and temples.

A medium-sized tree, up to 25 m tall, often with gnarled and low-branched bole, sometimes columnar, up to 100 cm in diameter; leaves clustered at apex of twigs, silky white velvety beneath; flower buds ovoid, pedicels not incrassate, curved and long, calyx up to 7 mm long, ovary with distinct glabrous disk; fruit ovoid or obovoid, up to 3.7 cm long. M. kauki usually grows in coastal regions with a comparatively dry climate, generally below 500 m altitude.

102, 165, 166, 167, 201, 304, 318, 346, 356, 618, 640, 673, 682, 686, 731, 760, 779, 783.

I.G.M. Tantra (general part), N. Tonanon (properties), R.H.M.J. Lemmens (properties, selection of species) & R. Klaassen (wood anatomy)