Cynometra mirabilis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Cynometra mirabilis Knaap-v. Meeuwen

Protologue: Blumea 18: 25 (1970).

• Malaysia: katong-katong (Sabah).

Sabah and the Philippines.

The wood is used as kekatong.

• A small to medium-sized tree of up to 35 m tall, bole sometimes of a poor shape, up to 80 cm in diameter, outer bark pale yellow-grey, smooth or lenticellate in old specimens, inner bark thin, pink-brown.
• Leaves with 1-2 pairs of equally sized, acuminate leaflets; stipe of the ovary fused laterally with the receptacle.
• Pod rugose, flat, 2.7-3 cm × 1.6-1.7 cm.

C. mirabilis occurs on hills near the sea or along rivers, up to 200 m altitude.

146, 366.

• Cynometra

• M.H.A. Hoffman