Palaquium lobbianum (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Palaquium lobbianum Burck
- Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 5: 29 (1886).
Synonyms
Croixia lobbiana (Burck) Baehni (1965).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: tiwiring, tofiri lobi-lobi (Moluccas), tiurring (Irian Jaya).
Distribution
The southern Philippines (Mindanao), the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.
Uses
The boles of the trees are used for making canoes in the Moluccas.
Observations
A small or medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, with straight bole up to 50 cm diameter; leaves more or less clustered at tip of twigs, elliptical to obovate, with inconspicuous, slender, transverse tertiary veins, yellowish to brownish hairy beneath; flowers in 1-10-flowered clusters, often on short leafless branches, borne on 5-10(-15) mm long pedicels; fruit obliquely ovoid, 3-3.5 cm long, glabrous but pubescent at base. P. lobbianum grows on clayey or sandy soil in lowland primary forest. The timber is brown and not very durable.
Selected sources
36, 318, 743.
