Heritiera novoguineensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera novoguineensis Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 25 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 488 (1959).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

Local people sometimes use the timber like dungun, for building.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree, up to 30 m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter.
• Leaves simple, densely and minutely scaly beneath, petioles 2.5-4 cm long.
• Fruit subglobular to elongate and depressed, with short apical wing, minutely scaly.

H. novoguineensis occurs in riverine forests of tidal rivers.

Selected sources

378, 735.

Main genus page

• Heritiera

Authors

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