Madhuca korthalsii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca korthalsii (Pierre ex Burck) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 168 (1925).

Synonyms

• Bassia braceana King & Gamble (1905).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kosal (Sumatra), katiau senaman, katiau tanduk (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 25(-35) m tall with bole up to 35 cm in diameter.
• Leaves evenly distributed, narrowly obovate to obovate or elliptical to lanceolate, 9-32 cm × 3-12.5 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 2.5 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals finely hairy on both sides, 8-lobed corolla glabrous except between the stamens, 16-18 stamens and usually glabrous ovary.
• Fruit ellipsoid or ovoid, 2-2.5 cm × 1-1.5 cm, 1-seeded.
• Seed with thin endosperm and thick cotyledons.

M. korthalsii grows in lowland rain forest up to 300 m altitude and usually occurs scattered.

Selected sources

100, 102, 581, 733, 779, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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