Madhuca beccarii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca beccarii (Engl.) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 177 (1925).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: nyatoh padi, nyatoh putih (Sarawak).

Distribution

Malaysia (Sarawak).

Uses

The timber is probably used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, elliptical to obovate, 11-16 cm × 3.5-6 cm, with secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 3 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals puberulous outside, glabrous inside, 7-8-lobed corolla sericeous outside, 13-16 stamens and glabrous pistil.
• Fruit ellipsoid to obovoid, 2-2.5 cm × 0.8-1.5 cm with thin pericarp.
• Seed incompletely known.

M. beccarii is not very common and is rather unknown.

Selected sources

733, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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