Manilkara celebica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Manilkara celebica H.J. Lam

Protologue: Blumea 4: 331 (1941).

• Indonesia: timbuwolo, amibolo, komea (Sulawesi).

Eastern Sulawesi.

The timber is possibly used for construction.

• A medium-sized tree, up to 27 m tall, with bole up to 75 cm in diameter.
• Leaves clustered at apex of twigs, sparsely and appressed hairy beneath but glabrescent.
• Flower buds club-shaped, pedicels gradually incrassate, calyx up to 10 mm long, ovary without a disk.
• Fruit pyriform to globose, up to 2.5 cm long.

M. celebica is closely related to M. kauki. It is locally common, and occurs in dry forest up to 300 m altitude.

731.

• Manilkara

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