Beilschmiedia gigantocarpa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Beilschmiedia gigantocarpa Kosterm.

Protologue: New and Crit. Mal. Pl. IV: 23, fig. 12, 15 (1955).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: palumbakuni, tambara (Sulawesi).

Distribution

Central Sulawesi (Malili District).

Uses

The wood is reputed to be used as medang.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole branchless for up to 10 m, up to 70 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 2 m high, bark surface smooth, grey, inner bark red to dark red; leaves opposite, 5-15 cm × 15-30 cm, glabrous, midrib flattened above and prominent below, tertiary venation reticulate and slightly prominent on both surfaces, petiole 2-2.5 cm long; flowers glabrous; fruit subglobose, up to 8 cm × 7 cm. B. gigantocarpa is locally common at low altitude.

Selected sources

310, 316.