Payena maingayi (PROSEA)
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Payena maingayi C.B. Clarke
- Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 547 (1882).
Synonyms
Payena grandiflora Ridley (1912), Madhuca maingayi (C.B. Clarke) Baehni (1965).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: nyatoh durian, mayang, nyatoh paya (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia.
Uses
The timber is used as nyatoh.
Observations
A medium-sized to large tree, up to 35(-50) m tall, with columnar bole up to 80 cm in diameter, buttressed; leaves oblong to lanceolate, densely pubescent beneath; flowers up to 1.6 cm long, white to pale yellow; fruit ellipsoid, 2-3.5 cm long, shortly pubescent. P. maingayi is closely related to P. acuminata. It occurs scattered in lowland forest below 300 m altitude, occasionally in swampy forest. The timber is fairly heavy for nyatoh with a density of about 750 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
36, 102, 581, 727, 779, 792.
