Artocarpus maingayi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus maingayi King

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

• Malaysia: pudu, chempedak ayer (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra (including Simeuluë).

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

• A medium-sized or fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 55 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high.
• Leaves elliptical to obovate-elliptical, base rounded to cuneate, glabrous above, the main veins appressed pubescent below, with 9-13 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul.
• Male head cylindrical, 5-6 mm across, on a c. 5 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp subellipsoid, up to 2 cm across, tessellate with very low, truncate processes, velutinous.

A. maingayi is fairly common in lowland evergreen forest up to 150 m altitude.

104, 234, 265, 705, 734.

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

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