Payena lowiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Payena lowiana Pierre

Protologue: Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris: 525 (1885).

Synonyms

• Payena glabra H.J. Lam (1925),
• Madhuca lowiana (Pierre) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: mayang rata (Sumatra), sau uding (Simeuluë), simpur (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia (only once collected), Sumatra, Simeuluë and Borneo (Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh. The fruits are edible.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 42 m tall, with bole up to 65 cm in diameter, buttressed.
• Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, glabrous or subglabrous beneath.
• Flowers small, up to 0.8 cm long, white.
• Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5-3.5 cm long, shortly pubescent to glabrous.

P. lowiana resembles P. lucida, but can be distinguished by the more prominent secondary veins of the leaves and longer styles. P. lowiana grows in the lowlands, in marshy as well as in drier forests.

Selected sources

36, 318, 581, 727, 779.

Main genus page

• Payena

Authors

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