Madhuca kunstleri (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

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

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 158 (1925).

Synonyms

• Bassia kunstleri Brace ex King & Gamble (1905).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo (Sarawak).

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 20 m tall with columnar bole up to 20 cm in diameter.
• Leaves evenly distributed, narrowly obovate or elliptical or lanceolate, 9-23 cm × 2-7.5 cm, secondary veins joined in arches near margin and forming an intramarginal vein, glabrous, stipules up to 2 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals brownish pubescent outside and glabrous inside, 10-16-lobed corolla finely hairy outside, 25-32 stamens and a hairy ovary.
• Fruit ovoid, 2-2.5 cm × 1-1.5 cm, hairy, 1-2-seeded.
• Seed with endosperm lacking or very thin, and thick cotyledons.

M. kunstleri occurs in lowland rain forest up to 800 m altitude and is locally common in Peninsular Malaysia.

Selected sources

581, 733, 779, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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