Artocarpus rubrovenius (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus rubrovenius Warb.

Protologue: Perkins, Fragm. Fl. Philipp.: 166 (1905).

Family: Moraceae

Vernacular names

• Philippines: kalulot (general), anubing (Tagalog), anabling (Bikol).

Distribution

The Philippines (Luzon).

Uses

The wood is used as keledang for light construction. The bark has been used for the manufacture of cloth and is reported to have medicinal properties.

Observations

• A medium-sized, dioecious, evergreen tree up to 15(-30) m tall, bole up to 40 cm in diameter, with bark mottled grey and brown, exuding a white latex when wounded.
• Leaves distichous, stipules not amplexicaul; blade ovate to elliptical, 11-26 cm × 5-14 cm, base broadly rounded to cuneate, margin entire, apex long acuminate, glabrous, with 8-13 pairs of secondary veins.
• Inflorescence capitate, axillary, solitary or in pairs; numerous flowers densely packed together, embedded in the receptacle, the perianth enclosing a single stamen or ovary, mixed with abundant stalked interfloral bracts.
• Male head obovoid to clavate, 1.5-4.5 cm × 1-2 cm on a 1.5-3 mm long peduncle.
• Styles in female head simple.
• Fruit a subglobose or shallowly lobed syncarp, up to 3 cm in diameter, on a 0.5-1 cm long peduncle, brown, nearly smooth, short pubescent, with numerous persistent bracts.

A. rubrovenius occurs in forest up to 350 m altitude.

Selected sources

68, 175, 263, 544. timbers

19, 87, 99, 115. fibres

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

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

M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch (Fibres)