Madhuca penangiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

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

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

Synonyms

• Bassia penangiana King & Gamble (1905).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia (Kedah, Penang, Perak).

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 25(-30) m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter.
• Leaves evenly distributed or loosely clustered at tips of twigs, lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, 8-27 cm × 2-8 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous at margin, glabrous, stipules up to 3 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals finely hairy outside and glabrous inside, 8-lobed corolla hairy outside and woolly between the stamens inside, 13-18 stamens and glabrous pistil.
• Fruit ellipsoid, 1.5-2 cm × 1 cm, 1-seeded.
• Seed lacking endosperm and with thick cotyledons.

M. penangiana occurs on hills and mountains at 150-1200 m altitude, is locally common, and is closely related to M. laurifolia. The wood has a density of about 730 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

102, 581, 733, 779, 792.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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