Nephelium melliferum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Nephelium melliferum Gagnepain

Family: Sapindaceae

• Nephelium parviflorum Gagnepain.

• Vietnam: cây truong vái, boc, bor lo.

Peninsular Burma (Myanmar), Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

The sarcotesta around the seed is edible.

• Tree, up to 27 m tall and 60 cm diameter trunk.
• Leaves 1-5-jugate.
• Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, 3-4 cm × 2 cm, red, densely covered with 6-9 mm long appendages.

In forests on steep ridges and on sandstone, up to 800 m altitude. Fruiting in April-July.

• Leenhouts, P.W., 1986. A taxonomic revision of Nephelium (Sapindaceae). Blumea 31: 373-436.

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