Campnosperma coriaceum (PROSEA)
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Campnosperma coriaceum (Jack) Hallier f. ex v. Steenis
- Protologue: Fl. Mal. Bull. No 3: 74 (1948).
Synonyms
- Campnosperma griffithii Marchand (1869),
- Campnosperma macrophyllum (Blume) Hook.f. (1876).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: ambacang rawang, meranti lebar daun (Sumatra), terentang malung (Bangka)
- Malaysia: terentang simpoh, terentang kelintang (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Lingga, Bangka, Borneo and New Guinea.
Uses
The timber is used as terentang; it is traded in New Guinea as "campnosperma".
Observations
- A medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, but usually much less, when growing in swamps often with prop roots, loop roots or pneumatophores.
- Leaves elliptical or oblong, rarely obovate, large (up to 19 cm wide), at base acute to cuneate and without ear-like lobes, densely pubescent beneath, rarely glabrescent.
- Flowers in fairly large, profusely branched panicles.
- Fruit with hollow septum, black when ripe.
C. coriaceum occurs gregariously in peat swamps with oligotrophic water and scattered or rare in mixed forest up to 500(-1000) m altitude.
Selected sources
318, 633, 735, 748, 779, 807.
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Authors
Ani Sulaiman
