Burckella macropoda (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Burckella macropoda (Krause) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Nova Guinea 14: 554, t. 99 (1932).

Illipe macropoda Krause (1923), Croixia macropoda (Krause) Baehni (1965).

• Papua New Guinea: rang rang (New Britain).

New Guinea, Fiji.

The timber is used for light construction, furniture and plywood.

A medium-sized to fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall, with bole branchless for up to 24 m and up to 65 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high; leaves narrowly obovate or obovate, 7-25 cm × 3-9 cm, glabrous, petiole up to 6.5 cm long; pedicels up to 3.5 cm long; fruit pear-shaped, up to 11 cm × 5 cm. Two varieties are distinguished: var. macropoda occurs in New Guinea up to 1000 m altitude, var. macrantha (H.J. Lam) H.J. Lam & P. v. Royen (synonym: Burckella macrantha H.J. Lam) occurs in Fiji. The density of the wood is 590-790 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

37, 343, 345, 491, 659, 731, 732.