Palaquium merrillii (PROSEA)
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Palaquium merrillii Dubard
- Protologue: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 15: 381 (1909).
Vernacular names
- Philippines: dulitan (Tagalog), mikat (Ibanag), bulau-bulau (Panay Bisaya).
Distribution
The Philippines.
Uses
The timber is used as nyatoh for furniture, cabinet work and cigar boxes.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall; leaves evenly distributed or loosely clustered at tip of twigs, obovate to oblanceolate, with rather distinct, transverse tertiary veins, glabrous on both sides when mature; flowers in 2-4-flowered clusters, borne on 5-12 mm long pedicels (in fruit up to 15 mm); fruit ellipsoid, c. 2 cm long, glabrous. P. merrillii grows in primary forests at low and medium altitudes. The timber is traded as "red nato" together with other Palaquium species, and is pale brown to reddish-brown and resembles the timber of P. barnesii .
Selected sources
480, 484, 486, 743.
