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<big>''[[Mangifera laurina]]'' Blume</big>, <big>''[[Mangifera pentandra]]'' Hooker f.</big> 

 :Protologue:*''M. laurina'' : Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1: 195 (1850). *''M. pentandra'' : Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 14 (1876).

*Philippines: apali(Tagbanua)*Burma: thayet-thee-nee, thayet-pya

The fruit of both species has only a little bit of flesh which liquidifies at maturity, so that it can be sucked out. More often the fruit is harvested immature, sliced and served in fruit salads with a spicy sauce ("rujak"). The wood is used as machang.

''M. laurina'' :*Tree, 20A medium-30(-35) sized to fairly large tree up to 36 m tall, trunk 40-90(-150) with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, occasionally with short thick buttresses, bark surface longitudinally cracked, peeling off in small, narrow strips, pinkish-brown to blackish.*Leaves elliptic-lanceolate oblong to lanceolate-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, (6-24 )14-30 cm × (2-6 )3-7 cm, chartaceous, petiole slender, 2-5(-8) cm long.*Inflorescences panicles, subterminalInflorescence a pseudo-terminal, lax and widely pyramidalpanicle, 10-40 cm longapically sparingly, open, laxly spreading, glabrous or sub-minutely puberulous, loosely flowered.*Flowers whitish5-green to pale yellowmerous, long-pedicelled, smallpetals narrow, fragrant; calyx 3.5-lobed5.5 mm long, petals whitish-green to pale yellowish, with 3-5ridges on the inner surface, extending half-way along the petal and confluent at base, disk fleshy, narrow; stamens 5-lobed, only 1 cup-shaped, one stamen fertile, free, staminodes minute.*Fruit a drupe, usually obliquely subglobose to oblong-ovoid exactly like a small mango, 6-up to 10 cm × 4long, yellowish-5 cm, pale yellow at maturitygreen when ripe; flesh yellow, soft, fibrous, juicy.

''M. pentandra'' :*Tree, up The heartwood is reported to 28 m tall, trunk 90 cm in diameter, occasionally with small buttresses.*Leaves oblong be greyish to elliptic (11-)16-20(-25)cm × (3.5-)6-9(-15)cm, coriaceous, venation distinct on both surfaces, densely reticulatepale red but also chocolate brown; leaves reddening when drying; petiole 1.5the density of the wood is 690-790 kg/m^{3.5(-6)cm long.*Inflorescences pyramidal panicles,} at 15-30 cm long, densely pubescent% moisture content.*Flowers yellowish to cream-white, calyx 5-lobed, petals 5, stamens 5, 3-5 fertile.*Fruit a drupe, like a small mango, 7-10 cm × 4-5 cm, yellowish-green; flesh orange, soft and watery, with few fibres, rather sweet.*Stone 4-5 cm × 3-3.5 cm × 1.7-2 cm, with thick woody endocarp which is rather deeply groovedSee also the table on wood properties.

By some authors (e.g. in Flora Malesiana) ''M. pentandralaurina'' much resembles is merged into ''M. indica'' ; tree habit and leaves are very similar, so that ''M. laurina'' is often mistaken for ''M. indica'' . Its densely hairy panicles and its flowers with 3glabrous or sub-5 fertile stamens puberulous, laxly spreading, loosely flowered inflorescences are discriminative. The rate Flowering can take place after any short dry spell. In South Kalimantan (Kandangan) a form with more elongated, narrower fruits is known as "asem buluh", meaning "bamboo mango". In East Kalimantan, ''M. laurina'' in village plantings in the lakes area sometimes crosses with the wild ''M. gedebe'' Miq. of which there are important populations. The fruit set is characteristically highshows intermediate characters, having notably labyrinthine seed.

Both The species are is at home in fairly wet tropical lowlands, ''M. laurina'' also at elevations above 300 m.

Both The species might contribute to the improvement of ''M. indica'' through breeding programmes. Crossing ''M. laurina'' 's ’s resistance to anthracnose and the heavy fruit set of ''M. pentandra'' into ''M. indica'' would be a major breakthrough. Heavy fruit set may result from more intensive pollination in species with 3-5 fertile stamens instead of a single one. Five-stamen close relatives of ''M. indica'' include ''Mangifera caloneura'' Kurz and ''Mangifera cochinchinensis'' Engl., which occur in mainland South-East Asia.

It is to be expected that both this species will continue to lose ground to the common mango. Their Its main role may lie in the hybridization of the mango.

*J.M. Bompard