Cheilosa malayana (PROSEA)
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Cheilosa malayana (Hook.f.) Corner ex Airy Shaw
- Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonyms
Baccaurea malayana King ex Hook.f.
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: gurak gatuk (Kalimantan), bua tampoi (Sumatra). Peninsular Malaysia: tampoi, tampul, tempuni.
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, occasionally also cultivated.
Uses
The fruits are edible, and are also used to prepare an alcoholic drink. The timber is durable but liable to split and is used for posts.
Observations
Tree, up to 25 m tall. Leaves elliptic-oblong, up to 25 cm × 10 cm. Panicles spike-like, slender, 8 cm long, solitary or fascicled on the branches; fruiting racemes short. Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, up to 5 cm long, dehiscent, pale green to yellow, with white flesh, pericarp thick, woody. In forests up to 500 m altitude.
Selected sources
2, 10, 72.