Calophyllum venulosum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum venulosum Zoll.

Protologue: Syst. Verz. 2: 149 (1854).

• Calophyllum javanicum Miq. (1854).

• Indonesia: ki sapilan (Sundanese, Java).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, West Java, Borneo and the Philippines (Mindanao, Basilan).

The timber is used as bintangor. It is used for oars.

• A small to large tree up to 45 m tall with bole up to 80 cm in diameter, without buttresses, but sometimes shortly spurred; twigs usually 6-angled, terminal bud plump, 3-13 mm long.
• Leaves elliptical, ovate, suboblong or obovate, 4-23.5 cm long, auriculate, cordate or rounded at base, acute to rounded at apex, with 4-10 veins per 5 mm.
• Inflorescences usually axillary, unbranched, (1-)5(-11)-flowered; flowers with 4 tepals.
• Fruit usually spherical, 12-20 mm long, with thick, compact outer layer, yellowish to brownish.

C. venulosum usually grows in well-drained mixed dipterocarp forest up to 600(-1500) m altitude, but also frequently along streams. The density of the wood is 570-660 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

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• Calophyllum

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