Artocarpus scortechinii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus scortechinii King

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

• Malaysia: terap hitam, nangka pipit (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and the Lingga Archipelago.

The wood is used as terap. The bark has been used to obtain twine and the latex to adulterate that of Willughbeia spp.

• A medium-sized to fairly large evergreen tree up to 35 m tall.
• Leaves elliptical to ovate-elliptical, base rounded to broadly cuneate, glabrous above, softly densely hairy below, with 12-14 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul.
• Male head cylindrical, 10 mm across, on a 35-50 mm long peduncle; styles in female head bifid; syncarp cylindrical, up to 5.5 cm across, covered by fleshy, cylindrical, obtuse or truncate processes, hispid pubescent.

A. scortechinii occurs scattered in lowland evergreen forest up to 750 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 480 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

75, 78, 104, 262, 294, 363, 631, 703, 705, 734.

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

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