Palaquium lobbianum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium lobbianum Burck

Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 5: 29 (1886).

• Croixia lobbiana (Burck) Baehni (1965).

• Indonesia: tiwiring, tofiri lobi-lobi (Moluccas), tiurring (Irian Jaya).

The southern Philippines (Mindanao), the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

The boles of the trees are used for making canoes in the Moluccas.

• A small or medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, with straight bole up to 50 cm diameter.
• Leaves more or less clustered at tip of twigs, elliptical to obovate, with inconspicuous, slender, transverse tertiary veins, yellowish to brownish hairy beneath.
• Flowers in 1-10-flowered clusters, often on short leafless branches, borne on 5-10(-15) mm long pedicels.
• Fruit obliquely ovoid, 3-3.5 cm long, glabrous but pubescent at base.

P. lobbianum grows on clayey or sandy soil in lowland primary forest. The timber is brown and not very durable.

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• Palaquium (Timbers)

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