Palaquium sukoei (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Palaquium sukoei C. Fischer

Protologue: Kew Bull.: 365 (1933).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: nyatoh mayang
• Burma: pinle-byin-anti.

Distribution

Burma and Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 70 cm in diameter and sometimes with small buttresses.
• Leaves usually densely clustered, broadly obovate to elliptical, with laxly reticulate tertiary venation, glabrous on both sides.
• Flowers in 1-4-flowered clusters, borne on 8-22 mm long pedicels, yellowish-white.
• Fruit ellipsoid, 2-5 cm long, densely lepidote-hairy.

P. sukoei occurs scattered in forest at low and medium altitudes up to 700 m. The timber is heavy for nyatoh, about 820 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

743, 779, 792.

Main genus page

• Palaquium (Timbers)

Authors

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