Artocarpus horridus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus horridus Jarrett

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 40: 306 (1959).

Synonyms

• Artocarpus communis J.R. Forster & J.G. Forster var. pungens J.J. Smith ex K. Heyne (1927).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: dinga, pongo (Moluccas).

Distribution

The Moluccas (Halmahera group).

Uses

The wood is reputed to be used as terap or keledang. The roots have been used as a styptic. The latex is used for birdlime and the seeds are sometimes roasted and eaten but regarded as inferior to those of other species.

Observations

• A fairly large evergreen tree up to 35(-40) m tall, bole up to 65 cm in diameter, with prominent buttresses.
• Leaves ovate-elliptical, base rounded to cuneate, sparsely appressed puberulent above, veins below appressed puberulent, stipules non-amplexicaul.
• Inflorescences arising from older branches and the trunk, male head cylindrical, 15-23 mm across, on a 20-35(-50) mm long peduncle; styles in female head bifid.
• Syncarp cylindrical to subellipsoid, 3(-4.5) cm across, with solid, cylindrical, blunt processes, glabrous to sparsely hairy.

A. horridus occurs in evergreen forest up to 350 m altitude.

Selected sources

234, 262.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

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