Palaquium clarkeanum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium clarkeanum King & Gamble

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74(2): 191 (1905).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: getah getapang, taban ketapang, nyatoh ketiar (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A large tree up to 50 m tall, with columnar bole up to 130 cm in diameter and large plank buttresses.
• Leaves clustered at tip of twigs, narrowly obovate to obovate, with slender transverse tertiary veins distinct beneath, densely brownish woolly beneath.
• Flowers in 4-12-flowered clusters, borne on 30-45 mm long pedicels, yellowish-white.
• Fruit oblong, 3.5-5 cm long, glabrous.

P. clarkeanum is an uncommon tree of primary lowland forest below 300 m altitude; it occurs scattered. The timber is heavy for nyatoh, with a density of about 820 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

102, 190, 581, 743, 779, 792.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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