Madhuca macrophylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca macrophylla (Hassk.) H.J. Lam

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 162 (1925).

Synonyms

• Payena macrophylla (Hassk.) Burck (1886).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: pasra, karet munding (Sundanese, Java).

Distribution

Western Java.

Uses

The timber may be used in house building.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 25(-35) m tall.
• Leaves clustered at tips of twigs, broadly spatulate to spatulate or obovate, 15-55 cm × 6-22 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, stipules up to 3.5 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals pubescent outside and along margins and at tip inside, 8-13-lobed corolla woolly on both sides, 22-28 stamens and hairy ovary.
• Fruits often two together, pendulous, ellipsoid, 2.5-4 cm × 1.5-3 cm, 1-2-seeded.
• Seed with thin, shining brown testa, albumen absent and cotyledons thick.

M. macrophylla grows in mixed forest below 600 m; it is an uncommon species. The timber is reported to be fairly durable.

Selected sources

35, 36, 318, 733.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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