Palaquium tenuipetiolatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium tenuipetiolatum Merr.

Protologue: Bur. Govt. Lab. 17: 45 (1904).

• Croixia tenuipetiolata (Merr.) Baehni (1965).

• Philippines: maniknik (general), dulitan-pula (Tagalog), pango (Ibanag).

The Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Masbate, Mindanao).

The timber is used as nyatoh for cigar boxes, furniture and in-house decoration.

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, obovate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, with few, inconspicuous, transverse tertiary veins, initially hairy but soon becoming glabrous.
• Flowers in 1-4-flowered clusters, borne on 3-8 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous and brownish.

P. tenuipetiolatum is common in primary forest at low and medium altitudes. The timber is obtainable in limited quantities; it is reddish or purplish-brown and is grouped together with other Palaquium species under "red nato".

36, 480, 484, 486, 579, 743.

• Palaquium (Timbers)

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