Heritiera arafurensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera arafurensis Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 36 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 499 (1959).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: korumu (Halmaheira), rorum (Morotai).

Distribution

The Lesser Sunda Islands from Lombok to Timor, the eastern Moluccas; possibly also Sulawesi and Irian Jaya.

Uses

The timber is occasionally used as dungun.

Observations

• A large tree, up to 45 m tall with straight, and up to 20 m branchless bole, up to 50 cm in diameter, with large buttresses.
• Leaves simple, densely scaly beneath, petioles 2-5 cm long, slender.
• Fruit with a faint dorsal ridge and a small apical rudder-like wing, densely scaly.

Selected sources

378, 735.

Main genus page

• Heritiera

Authors

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