Canarium grandifolium (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Canarium grandifolium (Ridley) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 42: 215 (1932).

• Trigonochlamys grandifolia Ridley (1910).

• Malaysia: kedondong (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Borneo (Brunei, Sabah).

The wood is used as kedondong.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 43 m tall, bole up to 70 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 3.5 m high, bark surface dippled and scaly, grey or grey-white, inner bark laminated, yellow-brown, exuding clear to yellow-white resin.
• Stipules absent; leaves with 5-7 leaflets, rachis swollen and flattened towards the base, pubescent, leaflets rounded at apex with a short acuminate tip, margin recurved, minutely serrate to entire, densely tomentose below and on the midrib above, with 9-14 pairs of secondary veins which are sunken above and prominent below.
• Inflorescence terminal, rarely with additional axillary ones, male one paniculate, female one racemose to spicate.
• Male flowers 13 mm long, female ones 15 mm long, stamens 3; f.
• Fruit ellipsoid, 50 mm × 40 mm, slightly hairy at the apex.

C. grandifolium is not uncommon in primary forest at low altitude.

9, 162, 342, 366, 705.

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

• Canarium