Vitex quinata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vitex quinata (Lour.) F.N. Williams

Protologue: Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2, 5: 431 (1905).

Vitex heterophylla Roxb. (1832), Vitex sumatrana Miq. (1861), Vitex celebica Koord. (1898).

• Indonesia: ketileng, laban (general), gofasa (Sulawesi)
• Malaysia: leban bunga, leban tandok (Peninsular)
• Philippines: kalipapa (general). Burma (Myanmar): kyetyo-po
• Thailand: sakhang, makhang, ipae (north-eastern).

India, Burma (Myanmar), the Andaman Islands, Indo-China, southern China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Sulawesi, Timor and the Moluccas.

The timber is used locally for house construction and boats, especially in Sulawesi, where the logs may have large dimensions.

A medium-sized to large tree, up to 45 m tall, with bole up to 100(-150) cm in diameter; leaves (3-)5-foliolate, leaflets glabrous (except midrib below); inflorescence terminal, spreading, paniculate; calyx lobes subequal, small or minute (up to 2.5 mm long), corolla yellowish or purplish; fruit subglobose to pear-shaped, up to 12 mm long, purplish-black when mature. V. quinata is found in forest up to 1300 m altitude. The density of the wood is reported as only 340-660 kg/m³at 15% moisture content in Indonesia.

36, 73, 78, 218, 234, 261, 302, 303, 331, 341, 344, 443, 474, 529, 600, 705, 706.