Madhuca coriacea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca coriacea (Merr.) Merr.

Protologue: Enum. Philipp. fl. pl. 3: 276 (1923).

Vernacular names

• Philippines: lisong, lisong-insik (Tagalog).

Distribution

The Philippines (Luzon, Samar, Leyte).

Uses

The timber is probably used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree.
• Leaves evenly distributed, oblanceolate, 8-15 cm × 2.5-4 cm, secondary veins irregularly joined near margin, glabrous, stipules c. 2.5 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers incompletely known.
• Fruit obovoid, 2-4 cm × 1-1.5 cm, 1-seeded.
• Seed with thin endosperm and thick cotyledons.

M. coriacea occurs in primary forests at low altitudes. Nomenclatorial confusion with Ganua coriacea Pierre ex Dubard, a medium-sized tree (up to 30 m) from Sumatra, Riau and northern Borneo, might occur because a combination in Madhuca has not yet been made for this species.

Selected sources

486, 733.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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