Beilschmiedia madang (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Beilschmiedia madang Blume

Protologue: Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1(21): 332 (1851).

Synonyms

• Beilschmiedia malaccensis (Meissn.) Hook.f. (1886),
• Beilschmiedia curtisii Gamble (1910),
• Beilschmiedia scortechinii Gamble (1910).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: huru (Sundanese, Java), mauseu tahang (Simeuluë, Sumatra), medang kohat (Bengkulu, Sumatra), medang mekolopon (Bangka)
• Malaysia: medang mekolopon (Peninsular)

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Bangka and western Java; possibly also Kalimantan.

Uses

The wood is used as medang, e.g. for house building. In Bengkulu (Sumatra), the wood is used as an antimalarial.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 24 m tall, bole branchless for up to 18 m, up to 50 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface smooth, lenticellate, fawn, inner bark red.
• Leaves alternate, elliptical to oblong, 6.5-30 cm × 2-13 cm, base cuneate, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous to reddish-brown pubescent below, midrib raised above, tertiary venation faint above and distinct below, petiole 1-3 cm long.
• Flowers hairy.
• Fruit oblong, c. 2.5 cm × 1-1.5 cm.

B. madang occurs scattered in lowland and lower montane forest up to 1250 m altitude. The density of the wood is 490-590 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

35, 77, 78, 181, 234, 303, 465, 474, 529, 705. timbers

121, 485, 541, 990. medicinals

Main genus page

• Beilschmiedia (PROSEA Medicinal plants)
• Beilschmiedia (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

• Nguyen Kim Dao