Palaquium cochleariifolium (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium cochleariifolium P. v. Royen

Protologue: Blumea 10: 545 (1960).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: paga
• Indonesia: katiau, nyatu yehrong, nyatu temiang (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: samundo (Sarawak).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as bitis.

Observations

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 28 m tall.
• Leaves clustered at tip of twigs, obovate or spoon-shaped, with few transverse tertiary veins usually indistinguishable from the reticulate venation in between, glabrous on both sides.
• Flowers in 5-12-flowered axillary or terminal clusters, borne on 15-35 mm long pedicels, yellowish.
• Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, 2-2.5 cm long, glabrous and green.

P. cochleariifolium grows in freshwater swamp (peat-swamp forest) and marshes at low altitudes, sometimes along the sea coast. The timber is heavy, the density is 1070-1120 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 743.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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