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Madhuca penangiana (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Madhuca penangiana]]'' (King & Gamble) H.J. Lam</big>
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:Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 168 (1925).

== Synonyms ==

''Bassia'' ''penangiana'' King & Gamble (1905).

== Distribution ==

Peninsular Malaysia (Kedah, Penang, Perak).

== Uses ==

The timber is used as nyatoh.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized tree up to 25(-30) m tall with bole up to 60 cm in diameter; leaves evenly distributed or loosely clustered at tips of twigs, lanceolate or narrowly elliptical, 8-27 cm × 2-8 cm, secondary veins diminishing until inconspicuous at margin, glabrous, stipules up to 3 mm long, caducous; flowers with sepals finely hairy outside and glabrous inside, 8-lobed corolla hairy outside and woolly between the stamens inside, 13-18 stamens and glabrous pistil; fruit ellipsoid, 1.5-2 cm × 1 cm, 1-seeded; seed lacking endosperm and with thick cotyledons. ''M.'' ''penangiana'' occurs on hills and mountains at 150-1200 m altitude, is locally common, and is closely related to ''M. laurifolia'' . The wood has a density of about 730 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

102, 581, 733, 779, 792.


[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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