Beilschmiedia insignis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Beilschmiedia insignis Gamble

Protologue: Kew Bull.: 147 (1910).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: medang (general).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The wood is used as medang.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 34 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, bark surface smooth, lenticellate, grey to dark grey, inner bark dark brown; leaves opposite to alternate, 11-35 cm × 6-12 cm, glabrous, midrib flattened above and keeled below, tertiary venation faint above and raised below, petiole 2-3.5 cm long; flowers glabrous; fruit subglobose, up to 4 cm in diameter, short-beaked. B. insignis occurs scattered in moist locations in lowland and montane forest. The density of the wood is about 575 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

140, 181, 316, 529, 705, 734.