Baccaurea parviflora (PROSEA)
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Baccaurea parviflora (Muell. Arg.) Muell. Arg.
- Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonyms
Baccaurea scortechinii Hook.f.
Vernacular names
- Indonesia, Malaysia: setambun
- Burma: kanaso
- Thailand: mafai-ka (peninsular), somfai-pa (Nakhon Si Thammarat), mafai-tao (Satun).
Distribution
Peninsular Burma, Thailand and Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra.
Uses
Fruits are edible, acidic, best when cooked. The wood is hard and durable, used for small utensils.
Observations
Small tree, up to 6 m tall. Leaves elliptic, up to 20 cm × 9 cm. Inflorescences on the trunk, females at lowest part. Fruit a fusiform berry-like capsule, up to 2.5 cm × 1 cm, angled, sometimes narrowly winged, purplish-black, on strings lying on the ground. In lowland forest, up to 450 m altitude, flowering after dry weather.
Selected sources
1, 2, 10, 12, 26.