Calophyllum persimile (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum persimile P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 61: 620 (1980).

Distribution

Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea.

Uses

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

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 25 m tall with bole up to 40 cm in diameter, sometimes with small buttresses; twigs strongly 4-angled, terminal bud plump to conical, (4-)7-9 mm long.
• Leaves usually elliptical to oblong, (5-)10-30 cm long, acute at base, retuse to rounded at apex, with 4-10 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences axillary, unbranched, c. 5-flowered; flowers with 4 tepals.
• Fruit ovoid, c. 30 mm long, with thick outer layer.

C. persimile is closely related to C. suberosum P.F. Stevens and grows both in well-drained rain forest and in rain forest inundated in the wet season, up to 550 m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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