Madhuca kingiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca kingiana (Brace ex King & Gamble) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 159 (1925).

Synonyms

• Bassia kingiana Brace ex King & Gamble (1905),
• Ganua kingiana (Brace ex King & Gamble) v.d. Assem (1953).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: putatat putatat (Sumatra).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and northern Borneo (Sabah, East Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is locally used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with columnar bole up to 60 cm in diameter, buttresses small or absent.
• Leaves densely clustered at tips of twigs, narrowly elliptical to elliptical or obovate, 17.5-32.5 cm × 5-10 cm, secondary veins joined in arches near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 18 mm long, fairly persistent.
• Flowers with sepals finely woolly outside, 12-16-lobed whitish corolla, 24-36 stamens and hairy ovary.
• Fruit ovoid to globose, c. 1.5 cm in diameter, with rather thin pericarp.

M. kingiana occurs in lowland rain forest, on hills and ridges, up to 400 m altitude. It is locally common in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah. The density of the wood is about 750 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 100, 581, 728, 779, 781, 792.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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