Calophyllum goniocarpum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum goniocarpum P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Austr. Journ. Bot. 22: 369 (1974).

Distribution

The Moluccas (Morotai) and New Guinea.

Uses

The timber is possibly traded as "calophyllum" in Papua New Guinea.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 36 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs usually rather strongly 4-angled, terminal bud plump, 5-14 mm long.
• Leaves obovate to oblong or elliptical, (4-)6-23 cm long, acute to cordate at base, obscurely acuminate to retuse at apex, with 9-17 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences axillary, 5-17-flowered and branched with 3-flowered branches; flowers with 4(-5) tepals.
• Fruit ellipsoid to spherical, 17-28 mm long, with fairly thick outer layer often having air spaces under the skin, usually bluish to blackish.

C. goniocarpum usually grows in well-drained forest up to 800 m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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