Palaquium dasyphyllum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium dasyphyllum (de Vriese) Pierre ex Dubard

Protologue: Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 56, Mém. 16: 8 (1909).

Synonyms

Palaquium stenophyllum H.J. Lam (1925), Madhuca dasyphylla (de Vriese) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bitis nyatu batu, nyatu kelincir (Kalimantan)
• Thailand: phikun dong (Pattani).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, the Riau Archipelago and Borneo.

Uses

The timber may be used as nyatoh.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall; leaves evenly distributed, obovate to elliptical, with indistinct, slender, transverse tertiary veins, glabrous on both sides except lower side of midrib; flowers in 5-11-flowered clusters, borne on 8-16 mm long pedicels; fruit ovoid to obovoid or ellipsoid, 1-3 cm long, hairy but glabrescent, green. P. dasyphyllum grows in primary forest, on soil overlying rocks and limestone; locally it is not uncommon. The density of the timber is 500-760 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 100, 743.