Heritiera albiflora (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera albiflora (Ridley) Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 64 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 527 (1959).

Synonyms

• Tarrietia albiflora Ridley (1938).

Distribution

Borneo (Brunei, Sarawak, Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is occasionally used as mengkulang.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree, up to 30 m tall with branchless bole up to 17 m, and up to 50 cm in diameter, buttresses low and thin.
• Leaves palmately trifoliolate, glabrous beneath, petioles (2-)5-7 cm long, rather slender.
• Panicles comparatively narrow, up to 13 cm long.
• Fruit with large wing, glabrous.

H. albiflora occurs scattered (but locally abundant) in heath forest at low altitude, especially in subcoastal areas.

Selected sources

33, 378, 447.

Main genus page

• Heritiera

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)