Madhuca crassipes (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca crassipes (Pierre ex Becc.) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 180 (1925).

Synonyms

• Croixia crassipes (Pierre ex Becc.) Baehni (1965).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: jematuk, papungu putih (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Sumatra and Borneo (Sarawak, Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• Probably a medium-sized tree.
• Leaves clustered at tips of twigs, obovate to spatulate, 5-10 cm × 2.5-4 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 4 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals hairy outside and glabrous inside, 8-9-lobed corolla sericeous outside and woolly inside between the stamens, 17-19 stamens and glabrous pistil.
• Fruit ellipsoid to obovoid, 4-5.5 cm × 2-3.5 cm, with fleshy pericarp, 1-seeded.
• Seed with thin reddish-brown testa, thin albumen and thick cotyledons.

M. crassipes grows in lowland forest.

Selected sources

36, 733, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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