Artocarpus glaucus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus glaucus Blume

Protologue: Bijdr. fl. Ned. Ind.: 483 (1825).

Synonyms

• Artocarpus glaucescens Trécul (1847),
• Artocarpus zollingerianus Miq. (1847),
• Artocarpus denisonianus King (1888).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: tiwu landu (Sundanese, Java), sembir (Java), tampang buwah (Palembang, Sumatra)
• Malaysia: nangka pipit (Peninsular), pudau paya (Sarawak).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands.

Uses

The wood is used as terap or keledang, e.g. for house building.

Observations

• A fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 115 cm in diameter, buttresses prominent or absent.
• Leaves ovate to obovate, base cuneate to rounded, glabrous above, venation appressed puberulent below, with 8-15 pairs of secondary veins, stipules non-amplexicaul.
• Male head narrowly oblong or clavate, 5-6 mm across, on a 1-3 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp subglobose, often shallowly lobed, up to 3 cm across, nearly smooth to papillate, shortly pubescent.

A. glaucus is generally uncommon and occurs in evergreen lowland and hill forest, sometimes along rivers or in peat swamps, up to 750(-1200) m altitude. The density of the wood is 610-950 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

69, 234, 235, 263, 474, 705.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

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