Artocarpus teysmannii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus teysmannii Miq.

Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl.: 418 (1861).

Synonyms

Artocarpus peduncularis Kurz (1875).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: sali saling, tipulu (Sulawesi)
• Malaysia: chempedak ayer, miku, terbak kechil (Peninsular).

Distribution

The Nicobar Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and western New Guinea.

Uses

The wood is used as terap or keledang, e.g. for boat building. The latex has been applied as birdlime on Sulawesi.

Observations

• A large evergreen tree up to 45 m tall.
• Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptical, baserounded to broadly cuneate, glabrous or nearly so above, appressed puberulent on the main veins below, with 6-12 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul.
• Male head narrowly cylindrical, 5-7(-9) mm across, on a 20-80 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple.
• Syncarp cylindrical, up to 2.2 cm across, with fleshy, conical, mostly perforate processes, appressed puberulent.

A. teysmannii occurs in lowland evergreen forest, often in swampy locations, up to 300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 310-730 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

77, 78, 234, 262, 474, 705.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

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