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Palaquium tenuipetiolatum (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Palaquium tenuipetiolatum]]'' Merr.</big>
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:Protologue: Bur. Govt. Lab. 17: 45 (1904).

== Synonyms ==

''Croixia'' ''tenuipetiolata'' (Merr.) Baehni (1965).

== Vernacular names ==

*Philippines: maniknik (general), dulitan-pula (Tagalog), pango (Ibanag).

== Distribution ==

The Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Masbate, Mindanao).

== Uses ==

The timber is used as nyatoh for cigar boxes, furniture and in-house decoration.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall; leaves evenly distributed, obovate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, with few, inconspicuous, transverse tertiary veins, initially hairy but soon becoming glabrous; flowers in 1-4-flowered clusters, borne on 3-8 mm long pedicels; fruit ovoid to narrowly ellipsoid, 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous and brownish. ''P.'' ''tenuipetiolatum'' is common in primary forest at low and medium altitudes. The timber is obtainable in limited quantities; it is reddish or purplish-brown and is grouped together with other ''Palaquium'' species under "red nato".

== Selected sources ==

36, 480, 484, 486, 579, 743.


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