Buchanania latifolia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Buchanania latifolia Roxb.

Family: Anacardiaceae

Synonyms

• Buchanania lanzan Sprengel.

Vernacular names

• Hamilton mombin (En)
• Mombin d'Hamilton (Fr)
• Burma: lambo, lone-hpo
• Thailand: mamuang maeng wan (Lampang), rak muu (peninsular), hak phuu (northern).

Distribution

Burma, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Yunnan.

Uses

Seeds used as a sweetmeat, rich in oil. The bark is used in tanning; its gum is used against leprosy in traditional medicine. The wood is only used as firewood.

Observations

Tree, 13-15 m tall. Fruit a drupe, ovoid-reniform, size of a small cherry, purplish-black. In open and dry forests on poor soils.

Selected sources

• Burkill, I.H., 1966. A dictionary of the economic products of the Malay Peninsula. 2nd ed. 2 Volumes. Ministry of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2444 pp.

• Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam (various authors), 1960-. Vol. 1-24. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

• Kurz, W.S., 1877. Forest Flora of British Burma. 2 Volumes. Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen