Campnosperma auriculatum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Campnosperma auriculatum (Blume) Hook.f.

Protologue: Fl. Brit. India 2: 41 (1876).

Synonyms

• Campnosperma oxyrhachis Engl. (1883).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: antumbus, madang rimueng (Sumatra), hamtangen (Sampit, Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: terentang daun besar, napan, serentang (Peninsular)
• Thailand: nangpron (peninsular), yaang re (Surat Thani), huasum (Trang).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as terentang. The oil extracted from seeds may be used for cooking and as lamp oil.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 38 m tall, with bole up to 80(-135) cm in diameter.
• Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, large (up to 20 cm wide), at base narrowly decurrent and with distinct ear-like lobes, glabrous beneath.
• Flowers in large, profusely branched panicles.
• Fruit with solid septum, dull reddish-purple.

C. auriculatum is locally co-dominant in freshwater swamps and common to rare in mixed primary and secondary forests up to 1000(-1600) m altitude. In swamp forest this species prefers places inundated regularly by eutrophic water. The density of the wood is about 370 kg/m³ at 17% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

102, 315, 318, 578, 633, 748, 779, 807.

Main genus page

• Campnosperma

Authors

Ani Sulaiman