Colona lanceolata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Colona lanceolata (Warb.) Burret

Family: Tiliaceae

Columbia lanceolata Warb.

• Philippines: kadiin, baliuan (Pangasinan), anilau (Tagalog).

The Philippines (Luzon).

The bark is made into rope.

A tree, up to 25 m tall, stem diameter up to 40 cm. Leaves 8-15 cm long, base oblique, margins toothed, apex conspicuously pointed, hairy. Fruit 5-winged. C. lanceolata occurs in secondary forest in thickets at low altitudes. Its vernacular name "anilau" has also been mentioned for Colona blancoi (Rolfe) Merr. and C. serratifolia Cav.

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M. Brink, P.C.M. Jansen & C.H. Bosch