Palaquium lobbianum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

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.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)