Palaquium regina-montium (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium regina-montium Ng

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 24: 9 (1969).

• Malaysia: nyatoh gunong (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia (Perak, Selangor, Pahang).

The timber is used as nyatoh.

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, with columnar bole, sometimes slightly fluted or knobbly, up to 100 cm in diameter.
• Leaves loosely clustered at tip of twigs, obovate (sometimes elliptical), with few, inconspicuous, transverse tertiary veins, velvety beneath.
• Flowers in up to 6-flowered clusters, in some trees exclusively female, borne on c. 12 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit obovoid, c. 2.5 cm long, initially sparsely hairy but glabrescent.

P. regina-montium is locally very common in montane forest at 1000-1800 m altitude. The trees are deciduous, all individuals in a certain area shedding the leaves at the same time and flowering as the new leaves appear. The timber is fairly heavy, with a density of about 750 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

779, 792.

• Palaquium (Timbers)

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