Trophis philippinensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Trophis philippinensis (Bur.) Corner

Family: Moraceae

Sloetia minahassae Koord.

• Indonesia: daendong, laindong, bunta (Sulawesi).

From the Philippines and Sulawesi (Indonesia) to New Guinea and New Britain.

In Sulawesi the pounded bast is traditionally used as barkcloth.

A tree with unisexual, spicate inflorescences. Male flowers with 4 tepals, imbricate in bud. Female flowers with fleshy, dark purple to black perianth. Fruit adnate to the enlarged perianth. Seed with subequal cotyledons.

12, 71.

M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch