Mangifera griffithii (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Mangifera griffithii Hook.f.
- Protologue: Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23: 168 (1860).
Synonyms
- Mangifera sclerophylla Hook.f. (1876),
- Mangifera beccarii Ridley (1933).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: rawa-rawa (Sumatra, Kalimantan), asem raba (West Kalimantan), romian (South Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: rawa (Peninsular), bahab, wahab (Sabah).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo; also cultivated.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used. The fruit is edible and has sweet dark orange-yellow pulp.
Observations
- A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole branchless for up to 25 m and up to 80 cm in diameter, buttresses absent, bark surface smooth to peeling off in small scales, lenticellate in long vertical rows, sometimes ringed with hoops, pale yellowish-brown to grey.
- Leaves broadly elliptical to elliptical-oblong or obovate-oblong, 8-18 cm × 3-7.5 cm.
- Inflorescence axillary, few-branched, pubescent.
- Flowers 4-merous, petals c. 2 mm long,creamy-white, with 3-5 ridges on the inner surface confluent at their bases, the central ridge with a thick, truncate appendix, disk cushion-like and broad, unequally lobed, one stamen fertile, staminodes minute.
- Fruit cylindrical-oblong or ovoid-oblong, up to 3.5(-4) cm long, glossy and smooth, greyish-purple but turning purplish-black with a rose-red blush near the base when fully ripe.
M. griffithii prefers temporarily inundated locations along rivers in lowland rain forest. Fruits are produced rather sporadically.