Mangifera duperreana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Mangifera duperreana Pierre

Family: Anacardiaceae

Synonyms

• Phanrangia poilanei Tard.

Vernacular names

• Indo-China: queo, svai prey, xoai
• Thailand: mamuang kau.

Distribution

Indo-China and Thailand, but very rare.

Uses

The fruits are small and inferior, but contain a white edible flesh with a turpentine taste. The wood is whitish, used as timber.

Observations

• Tree, 30-40 m tall.
• Leaves oblong to obovate, 13-30 cm long.
• Stamens 10-12, 5-6 of which are fertile.
• Fruit an oblongoid drupe, small.

On rocks in lowland forests, flowering December-March, fruiting April-May.

Selected sources

• Flore du Cambodge, du Laos et du Vietnam (various authors), 1960-. Vol. 1-24. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.

• Mukherjee, S.K., 1985. Systematic and ecogeographic studies on crop genepools 1. Mangifera L. IBPGR, Rome. 86 pp.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen