Baccaurea kunstleri (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Baccaurea kunstleri King ex Gage

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Synonyms

Baccaurea cordata Merr.

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: rambai hutan
• Thailand: mafai-ling (Narathiwat), chamrai (Nakhon Si Thammarat), kachampuling, kacham puuling (Trang).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The fruits are edible.

Observations

• Tree, 20-30 m tall, with small buttresses.
• Leaves with conspicuously scalariform secondary nerves.
• Infructescence up to 24 cm long.
• Fruit a subglobose trilocular capsule, 2 cm long, velutinous.

On low hillsides on sandy loam or granitic sand, in evergreen forest or scrub, up to 100 m altitude.

Selected sources

• Airy Shaw, H.K., 1972. The Euphorbiaceae of Siam. Kew Bulletin 26: 191-363.

• Airy Shaw, H.K., 1981. The Euphorbiaceae of Sumatra. Kew Bulletin 36: 239-374.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen