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Canarium dichotomum (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Canarium dichotomum]]'' (Blume) Miq.</big>
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:Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, 2: 648 (1859).
== Synonyms ==
*''Canarium dichotomum'' var. ''lucidula'' Engl. (1883), *''Canarium endertii'' H.J. Lam (1932).
== Vernacular names ==
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized tree up to 32 m tall, bole straight, up to 60 cm in diameter, with short buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface minutely longitudinally fissured, greenish with yellowish spots, inner bark exuding a little reddish or black resin; stipules .*Stipules caducous or persistent, subulate to linear; leaves with 7-11(-17) leaflets, leaflets acuminate at apex with a blunt to acute acumen, margin entire, glabrous or sometimes densely appressed hairy below, with 9-18 pairs of secondary veins; inflorescence .*Inflorescence terminal, sometimes with additional axillary ones, paniculate; flowers .*Flowers 6-9(-12) mm long, stamens 6; fruit .*Fruit narrowly oblong and acute at both ends, trigonous in cross-section, 27-40 mm × 10-20 mm, glabrous.  ''C. dichotomum'' is found in primary or sometimes secondary forest in well-drained locations, up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the sapwood is 370-630 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
77, 99, 162, 342, 366, 474.
 
== Authors ==
 
M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)
 
== Main genus page ==
 
*[[Canarium (PROSEA Timbers)|''Canarium'']]
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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