Madhuca ridleyi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca ridleyi H.J. Lam

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 105 (1935).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A fairly small tree up to 17 m tall with bole up to 50 cm in diameter.
• Leaves very densely clustered at tips of twigs, obovate to spatulate, 11-26 cm × 4-11 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous near margin, initially finely hairy below but glabrescent, stipules up to 11 mm long, caducous.
• Flowers with sepals pubescent on both sides, 16-17-lobed glabrous corolla, 33-37 stamens and glabrous pistil.
• Fruit globose, 2.5-3 cm in diameter, with thick fleshy pericarp, 2-4-seeded.
• Seed with fleshy endosperm and thin cotyledons.

M. ridleyi occurs scattered, usually on limestone hills at 150-450 m altitude. More rarely it is found in seasonally swampy regions.

Selected sources

733, 779.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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