Calophyllum garcinioides (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum garcinioides P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 61: 412 (1980).

Northern Borneo (Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah).

The timber is possibly used as bintangor.

• A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall, but sometimes much larger (up to 40 m), with bole up to 65 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs at first slightly 2-, 4-, or 6-angled, soon becoming rounded, terminal bud plump, 2.5-6 mm long.
• Leaves obovate, trapeziform or elliptical, 2.5-9.5 cm long, rounded to cuneate at base, subacuminate or acute at apex, with 7-15 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences terminal and from adjacent axils of leaves, branched when terminal, 7-17-flowered; flowers with 12-16 tepals.
• Fruit subspherical, 16-20 mm long, with thin, compact outer layer, greenish.

C. garcinioides occurs in lower montane and montane forest at 1000-2450 m altitude and is locally common. The latex may be white as well as yellow.

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• Calophyllum

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