Madhuca spectabilis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Madhuca spectabilis P. v. Royen

Protologue: Blumea 10: 24 (1960).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: natu bulang, kijan (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Borneo (Sabah, East Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is possibly used as nyatoh or bitis.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 26 m tall with stout twigs.
• Leaves evenly distributed, narrowly obovate, very large, 25-48 cm × 8-14 cm, secondary veins joined in arches near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 20 mm long, fairly persistent but ultimately caducous.
• Flowers comparatively large with sepals hairy outside and glabrous inside, 8-9-lobed corolla glabrous except for longitudinal streaks of hairs on the tube outside and between the stamens inside, 18-21 stamens and hairy ovary.
• Fruit and seed unknown.

M. spectabilis grows in lowland forest.

Selected sources

100, 733, 781.

Main genus page

• Madhuca (Timbers)

Authors

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