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Payena maingayi (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction
List of species


Payena maingayi C.B. Clarke

Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 547 (1882).

Synonyms

  • Payena grandiflora Ridley (1912),
  • Madhuca maingayi (C.B. Clarke) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

  • Malaysia: nyatoh durian, mayang, nyatoh paya (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

  • A medium-sized to large tree, up to 35(-50) m tall, with columnar bole up to 80 cm in diameter, buttressed.
  • Leaves oblong to lanceolate, densely pubescent beneath.
  • Flowers up to 1.6 cm long, white to pale yellow.
  • Fruit ellipsoid, 2-3.5 cm long, shortly pubescent.

P. maingayi is closely related to P. acuminata. It occurs scattered in lowland forest below 300 m altitude, occasionally in swampy forest. The timber is fairly heavy for nyatoh with a density of about 750 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 102, 581, 727, 779, 792.

Main genus page

Authors

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