Calophyllum goniocarpum (PROSEA)
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Calophyllum goniocarpum P.F. Stevens
- Protologue: Austr. Journ. Bot. 22: 369 (1974).
Distribution
The Moluccas (Morotai) and New Guinea.
Uses
The timber is possibly traded as "calophyllum" in Papua New Guinea.
Observations
A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs usually rather strongly 4-angled, terminal bud plump, 5-14 mm long; leaves obovate to oblong or elliptical, (4-)6-23 cm long, acute to cordate at base, obscurely acuminate to retuse at apex, with 9-17 veins per 5 mm; inflorescences axillary, 5-17-flowered and branched with 3-flowered branches; flowers with 4(-5) tepals; fruit ellipsoid to spherical, 17-28 mm long, with fairly thick outer layer often having air spaces under the skin, usually bluish to blackish. C. goniocarpum usually grows in well-drained forest up to 800 m altitude.
Selected sources
648.