Calophyllum bicolor (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum bicolor P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 61: 536 (1980).

Synonyms

• Calophyllum caudatum auct. non Kanehira & Hatusima.

Distribution

Eastern Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya), western Papua New Guinea and northern Australia (Queensland).

Uses

The timber is probably used as bintangor, and traded as "calophyllum" in New Guinea.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 50 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs slightly 4-angled or rounded, terminal bud plump, 4-7 mm long.
• Leaves ovate to elliptical, (2-)4-8(-13) cm long, rounded, truncate or cuneate at base, acute or acuminate at apex, with 4-9 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences axillary, unbranched, 3-5-flowered; flowers with 4 tepals.
• Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, 7-11 mm long, with thin outer layer having large air spaces, deep blue to black.

C. bicolor occurs in seasonally inundated or well-drained rain forest, often together with Melaleuca spp. and Acacia spp., sometimes in secondary forest, up to 100(-250) m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)