Campnosperma montanum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Campnosperma montanum Lauterb.

Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 56: 359 (1920).

• Indonesia: hotong otan (Moluccas), kaauwe (Irian Jaya).

The Moluccas and New Guinea including the Bismarck Archipelago.

The timber is traded as "campnosperma" in New Guinea.

• A shrub or small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, with bole up to 60 cm in diameter.
• Leaves elliptical-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, comparatively small (up to 9 cm wide on fertile twigs, but much larger on vegetative twigs), at base gradually decurrent and without ear-like lobes (but these rarely (obscurely) present on vegetative twigs), initially pubescent beneath but glabrescent.
• Flowers in small, scantly branched panicles.
• Fruit with solid septum, red to black when ripe.

C. montanum occurs in freshwater swamps as well as in well-drained lowland and submontane forest up to 1500 m altitude. In New Guinea it is found in mixed forest together with Lithocarpus, Nothofagus and Agathis spp. Locally C. montanum is fairly common.

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• Campnosperma

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