Artocarpus lowii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus lowii King

Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 542 (1888).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bangsal (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: miku (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and eastern Sumatra.

Uses

The wood is used as keledang. The greasy latex is used as an ointment or as a cooking oil. The fruit can be candied after cutting off the rind and removing the seeds.

Observations

A medium-sized evergreen tree up to 25 m tall, bole exuding an oily latex; leaves elliptical or narrowly elliptical, base cuneate, glabrous above, appressed puberulent on the main veins below, with 11-16 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul; male head cylindrical, c. 5 mm across, on a c. 40 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple; syncarp cylindrical, up to 3.5 cm across, with fleshy, conical processes with depressed apices, appressed puberulent. A. lowii occurs scattered in lowland evergreen forest. The density of the wood is c. 645 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. The oily latex of A. lowii is unique within this genus.

Selected sources

77, 78, 104, 262, 458, 465, 705.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

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