Palaquium bataanense (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium bataanense Merr.

Protologue: Bur. Govt. Lab. 17: 44 (1904).

Synonyms

• Palaquium whitfordii Merr. (1905).

Vernacular names

• Philippines: tagatoi, Bataan tagatoi (Tagalog), gasatan (Iloko).

Distribution

The Philippines.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh for cigar boxes and furniture, light planking and temporary construction work.

Observations

• A large tree up to 45 m tall.
• Leaves more or less clustered at tip of twigs, obovate to spatulate, with slender transverse tertiary veins fairly distinct beneath, initially hairy beneath but glabrescent.
• Flowers 1-3 together, borne on 10-25 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit obovoid, 1-1.7 cm long, glabrous.

P. bataanense grows in primary forests at low altitudes, particularly in dry hill forests. The timber is grouped together with other Palaquium species under "red nato", which has a density of 450-600 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

480, 486, 743.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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