Beilschmiedia glabra (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Beilschmiedia glabra Kosterm.

Protologue: Reinwardtia 7: 22 (1965).

Peninsular Malaysia (rare), Sumatra (rare) and Borneo.

The wood is reputed to be used as medang.

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 80 cm in diameter, without or with small buttresses, bark surface smooth to finely cracked, dark red-brown, inner bark creamy to orange-brown with a sour smell; leaves opposite, 10-15 cm × 3.5-6 cm, glabrous, midrib impressed above, tertiary venation prominent on both surfaces, petiole 2-3(-4) cm long; flowers with perianth lobes sparsely minutely pilose inside; fruit ellipsoid, up to 2.5 cm × 3.5 cm. B. glabra occurs in primary lowland forest, sometimes in marshy locations, also on limestone, up to 1200 m altitude.

317, 705.