Manilkara fasciculata (PROSEA)

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Manilkara fasciculata (Warb.) H.J. Lam & Maas Geest.


Protologue: Blumea 4: 335 (1941).

Synonyms

Northia fasciculata (Warb.) H.J. Lam (1925), Manilkara merrilliana H.J. Lam (1941), Abebaia fasciculata (Warb.) Baehni (1964).

Vernacular names

  • Philippines: duyok-duyok.

Distribution

The southern Philippines (southern Luzon, Samar, Mindanao), Sulawesi, the northern Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

Uses

The timber is used for heavy construction, furniture and implements.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall, with straight and cylindrical bole, free of branches up to 30 m, having a diameter of up to 100(-180) cm; leaves more or less clustered at apex of twigs, entirely glabrous; flower buds ovoid, pedicels gradually incrassate or slender and not incrassate, calyx up to 5 mm long, ovary without a disk; fruit globose to obovoid, up to 3.5 cm long. M. fasciculata is locally common (e.g. in Irian Jaya), in primary forest, on clayey soil and limestone, up to 500 m altitude. The density of the wood is 1000-1200 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

263, 484, 731, 814.