Calophyllum pauciflorum (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Calophyllum pauciflorum A.C. Smith
- Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 22: 348 (1941).
Distribution
New Guinea.
Uses
The timber is probably traded as "calophyllum". The wood is good as a green fuel.
Observations
A fairly large, possibly dioecious tree up to 36 m tall, with bole up to 50 cm in diameter, without buttresses but sometimes fluted at base; twigs 4- or 6-angled, strongly flattened, terminal bud strongly flattened, 5-11 mm long; leaves rhombiform, cuneiform, elliptical or obovate, 2.5-5.5(-9.5) cm long, cuneate at base, rounded or obtuse at apex, with 7-12 veins per 5 mm; inflorescences usually axillary, unbranched, 3-5-flowered; flowers with (7-)8 tepals; fruit spherical, 15-19 mm long, with thick, compact outer layer, greenish. C. pauciflorum is closely related to C. papuanum and grows in montane forest, often dominated by Castanopsis and Nothofagus species, at 1550-2900 m altitude.
Selected sources
648, 702.