Pouteria paucinervia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Pouteria paucinervia Erlee

Protologue: Blumea 8: 490, 503 (1957).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used.

Observations

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, with bole up to 60 cm in diameter, usually buttressed and sometimes with stilt roots.

• Leaves obovate to spatulate, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, initially reddish-brown hairy, but glabrescent.
• Flowers in 1-4-flowered clusters in leaf axils, borne on up to 5 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit depressed-globose, 1.5-2 cm in diameter, glabrescent, greenish-brown.

P. paucinervia is locally common in seasonal swamps in the lowland of Peninsular Malaysia.

Selected sources

317, 779.

Main genus page

• Pouteria

Authors

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