Calophyllum flavo-ramulum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum flavo-ramulum M.R. Henderson & Wyatt-Smith

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 15: 310 (1956).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and the Riau Archipelago; perhaps also in Sumatra.

Uses

The timber is used as bintangor.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 38 m tall with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs rounded or obscurely 4-angled, terminal bud plump, 2.5-6 mm long.
• Leaves oblong, 7.5-16 cm long, cuneate or attenuate at base, acuminate at apex, with 10-19 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences terminal and axillary, unbranched, 7-many-flowered; flowers with 8 tepals.
• Fruit ellipsoid to subspherical, 25-35 mm long, with fairly thin, compact outer layer, purplish-black.

C. flavo-ramulum grows in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 450 m altitude and is locally common.

Selected sources

648, 779.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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