Calophyllum hosei (PROSEA)
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Calophyllum hosei Ridley
- Protologue: Kew Bull.: 120 (1938).
Distribution
South-eastern Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
The timber is possibly used as bintangor.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 18 m tall, but sometimes much larger (up to 36 m), with bole up to 45 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs usually rounded, terminal bud plump, 2-4 mm long; leaves oblong to elliptical, (3-)4-9.5 cm long, acute at base, usually retuse at apex, with (9-)11-17(-22) veins per 5 mm; inflorescences axillary, unbranched, 7-13-flowered; flowers with 4 tepals; fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, c. 20 mm long, with thin, compact outer layer. C. hosei generally grows in freshwater peat swamps in the lowland.
Selected sources
648.
