Beilschmiedia palembanica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Beilschmiedia palembanica (Miq.) Kosterm.

Protologue: Reinwardtia 4: 31 (1956).

Cryptocarya palembanica Miq. (1862), Beilschmiedia longipes Hook.f. (1886), Beilschmiedia sumatrensis Ridley (1923).

• Indonesia: medang kuning (Sumatra).

Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

The wood is reputed to be used as medang.

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 55 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 1 m high, bark surface smooth, lenticellate, grey, inner bark chocolate-brown; leaves subopposite to alternate, 9-24.5 cm × 3-8.5 cm, slightly hairy below, grey above whendry, midrib sunken and covered with powdery hairs above, tertiary venation prominently reticulate and distinct below, petiole 0.5-2 cm long; flowers hairy; fruit subglobose, c. 1.5 cm × 1 cm. B. palembanica occurs scattered in lowland and lower montane forest up to 1400 m altitude.

310, 316, 705.