Calophyllum euryphyllum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum euryphyllum Lauterb.

Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 14 (1922).

Distribution

Northern New Guinea including the Bismarck Archipelago and the Aru Islands.

Uses

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

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 26 m tall with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, buttresses absent or very short; twigs 4-angled and with 2 additional ridges, strongly flattened, terminal bud subconical, 7-16 mm long.
• Leaves ovate to subelliptical, (6-)8.5-19 cm long, rounded or cuneate at base, subretuse to subacuminate at apex, with 9-13 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences axillary, usually unbranched, 5-15-flowered; flowers with 4 tepals.
• Fruit subspherical, large, 30-60 mm long, with fairly thin, compact outer layer, greenish.

C. euryphyllum usually occurs in primary rain forest up to 600 m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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