Elaeocarpus glaber (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Elaeocarpus glaber Blume

Family: Elaeocarpaceae

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: katulampa (Sundanese), katilampa, talilampa (Javanese).

Distribution

Indonesia (Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Kalimantan, Sumatra).

Uses

The fruits are edible but without much taste. Wood unsuitable as timber.

Observations

• Tree, up to 35 m tall and trunk up to 1.60 m diameter.
• Leaves oblong-ovate, 5-22 cm × 3-10 cm.
• Inflorescences up to 15 cm long.
• Fruit an ellipsoid drupe.

In riverine habitat, below 100 m altitude. Closely related to E. floribundus Blume.

In Indo-China Elaeocarpus madopetalus Pierre also bears edible fruits

• Cambodia: châmbâk prang
• Thailand: makok-nam
• Vietnam: côm, càna.)

Selected sources

• Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink, R.C., 1963 1968. Flora of Java. 3 Volumes. Noordhoff, Groningen, the Netherlands.

• Heyne, K., 1927. De nuttige planten van Nederlandsch Indië [The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies]. 2nd ed. 3 Volumes. Departement van Landbouw, Nijverheid en Handel in Nederlandsch Indië. 1953 pp.

• van Steenis, C.G.G.J., 1981. Rheophytes of the world: an account of the flood resistant flowering plants and ferns. Sijthoff & Noordhoff, the Netherlands. 407 pp.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen