Calophyllum laticostatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum laticostatum P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Austr. Journ. Bot. 22: 375 (1974).

Distribution

Papua New Guinea including New Britain; possibly also in the Philippines (Luzon).

Uses

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

Observations

• A large tree up to 43 m tall, with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs 4-angled, terminal bud (words missing).
• Leaves elliptical to narrowly obovate, (3-)6.5-16 cm long, cuneate at base, acute at apex, with (9-)11-20 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences axillary, usually unbranched, 5-21-flowered; flowers with 4 or 6 tepals.
• Fruit ovoid to subspherical, 13-19 mm long, with thin outer layer having air spaces under the skin, bluish.

C. laticostatum occurs in well-drained lowland or lower montane rain forest up to 1400 m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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