Palaquium ottolanderi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium ottolanderi Koord. & Valeton

Protologue: Bijdr. Boomsoorten Java 1: 146 (1894).

Synonyms

• Croixia ottolanderi (Koord. & Valeton) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: wuru santen, ki bengang (Java).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Java.

Uses

The timber is probably used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 50 m tall, with columnar bole up to 100 cm in diameter and plank buttresses.
• Leaves densely clustered at tip of twigs, broadly obovate to elliptical, with distinct, transverse tertiary veins, densely woolly beneath.
• Flowers in 5-16-flowered clusters, borne on 20-50 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit narrowly ovoid or more or less gherkin-shaped, 6-10 cm long, glabrous and shining green.

P. ottolanderi is uncommon to rare throughout its area of distribution, and occurs in primary and secondary forest at low altitudes, up to 800 m.

Selected sources

35, 36, 743, 779.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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