Palaquium pseudorostratum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium pseudorostratum H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 8: 393 (1927).

Synonyms

• Croixia pseudorostrata (H.J. Lam) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: nyatoh batu, nyatoh puntik (Sarawak).

Distribution

Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Kalimantan); possibly also in the Philippines.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A large tree up to 45 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, obovate to spatulate, with inconspicuous, laxly reticulate tertiary veins often parallel to secondary veins, glabrous on both sides.
• Flowers in 2-4-flowered clusters, borne on very short pedicels about 1.5(-7) mm long, greenish-yellow or whitish.
• Fruit globose, subglobose or ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm long, glabrous and green.

P. pseudorostratum grows particularly in freshwater swamp forest at low altitudes, but sometimes up to 1500 m. The timber is fairly heavy with a density of about 780 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 100, 743.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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