Madhuca cuneata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca cuneata (Blume) J.F. Macbr.

Protologue: Contr. Gray Herb. Harvard Univ., New Ser. 53: 18 (1918).

• Bassia cuneata Blume (1825),
• Isonandra cuneata (Blume) Baehni (1965).

• Indonesia: mayang batu, nyatuh sudu-sudu (Sumatra), merading (Kalimantan).

Sumatra, Java and Borneo (Kalimantan). Erroneously recorded from Peninsular Malaysia.

The timber is locally used for posts and planks in house building.

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 50 cm in diameter.
• Leaves more or less clustered at tips of twigs, obovate or elliptical, 7-12 cm × 2-5 cm, secondary veins joined or diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 2 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals sericeous outside and glabrous inside, 8-lobed corolla pubescent on both sides, c. 16 stamens and ovary hairy at base.
• Fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-4 cm × 1.5-2 cm, with thin pericarp, 1-seeded.
• Seed brown, with thin albumen and thick cotyledons.

This species occurs in coastal and mountainous regions, in primary forest; in Java up to 1200 m altitude. The timber is reportedly not very durable.

35, 36, 102, 318, 733, 779, 781.

• Madhuca (Timbers)

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