Dialium platysepalum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dialium platysepalum Baker

Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 270 (1878).

• Dialium maingayi Baker (1878),
• Dialium ambiguum Prain (1897),
• Dialium kingii Prain (1897),
• Dialium wallichii (Baker) Prain (1897),
• Dialium havilandii Ridley (1929),
• Dialium triste de Wit (1953).

• Malaysia: keranji kuning besar, keranji kuning kechil, keranji bulu (general)
• Thailand: yee thong bueng (peninsular).

Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

The timber is used as keranji. The fruit is edible.

• A medium-sized to large tree of up to 45 m tall, bole branchless for up to 21 m and with a diameter of up to 120 cm.
• Leaflets (5-)7-11(-15), (5-)6-8(-15) cm × (1.5-)2-4(-7) cm, veins beneath velvety hairy.
• Sepals 5, petals 0, stamens 2.
• Fruit subglobose to obovoid, 1.5-2.5(-3) cm long.

D. platysepalum usually grows on yellow sandy clay soils in lowland rain forest or freshwater swamp forest up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is 810-1010 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

100, 102, 146, 152, 190, 569, 578, 587, 591, 779, 796.

• Dialium

J.P. Rojo (selection of species)