Madhuca erythrophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca erythrophylla (King & Gamble) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 170 (1925).

Synonyms

• Bassia erythrophylla King & Gamble (1905).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Lingga, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall with bole up to 100 cm in diameter.
• Leaves loosely clustered at tips of twigs, obovate to elliptical, 7.5-26 cm × 3.5-7.5 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 10 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers incompletely known, sepals finely woolly outside and glabrous inside.
• Fruit globose, 1-2 cm in diameter, finely woolly, 1-seeded.

M. erythrophylla is reported to be locally common in Peninsular Malaysia on low hillsides and ridges below 300 m altitude.

Selected sources

581, 733, 779, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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