Scaphium linearicarpum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Scaphium linearicarpum (Masters) Pierre

Protologue: Fl. forest. Cochinch. fasc. 12, text accomp. pl. 193-195 (1888).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: kembang semangkok bulat (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Sumatra; rare in Borneo (East Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is used as kembang semangkok.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 35 m tall with fissured bole up to 75 cm in diameter.
• Leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, 15-35 cm × 12.5-35 cm, deeply heart-shaped at base, rounded at apex with 6-7 pairs of secondary veins, the basal pair prominently branched, glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, petiole up to 23 cm long.
• Fruit up to 25 cm long.
• Seed up to 25 mm long, hairy.

S. linearicarpum grows in lowland forest, occasionally up to 700 m altitude, and is locally common in Peninsular Malaysia, but less common than S. macropodum.

Selected sources

102, 190, 376, 431, 779.

Main genus page

• Scaphium

Authors

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