Artocarpus fretessii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus fretessii Teijsm. & Binnend.

Protologue: Hassk., Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 9: 189 (1866).

Synonyms

• Artocarpus dasyphyllus Miq. (1867),
• Artocarpus paloensis Elmer (1908),
• Artocarpus leytensis Elmer (1909).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kelembi, maumbi (Sulawesi), cempedak utan (Ambon)
• Philippines: bayuko (Bikol).

Distribution

Eastern Borneo, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

Uses

The wood is locally used as terap or keledang, e.g. for bridges and light construction. The fresh bark is reported to have weak contracting properties. The latex tastes like coconut milk.

Observations

• A fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole sometimes with small buttresses.
• Leaves obovate-oblong to elliptical, base broadly cuneate to shallowly cordate, veins pubescent above, moderately to sparsely pubescent below, with 9-13 pairs of secondary veins, stipules non-amplexicaul.
• Male head subglobose or obovoid, 3-7 mm across, on a 3-7 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp with 1 to several lobes, up to 4 cm across, papillate between the lobes, smooth elsewhere, puberulent.

A. fretessii is locally common in forest up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 640 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

234, 263, 544, 577.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)