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Canarium dichotomum (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Canarium dichotomum]]'' (Blume) Miq.</big>
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:Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat. 1, 2: 648 (1859).

== Synonyms ==

''Canarium dichotomum'' var. ''lucidula'' Engl. (1883), ''Canarium endertii'' H.J. Lam (1932).

== Vernacular names ==

*Indonesia: tuala-tuala (eastern central Sumatra), damar lang(Palembang, Sumatra), bangkukuk (south-eastern Kalimantan)
*Malaysia: kedondong, ketio bukit (Sarawak), balajan (Sabah).

== Distribution ==

Sumatra and Borneo.

== Uses ==

The wood is reputed to be used as kedondong.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized tree up to 32 m tall, bole straight, up to 60 cm in diameter, with short buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface minutely longitudinally fissured, greenish with yellowish spots, inner bark exuding a little reddish or black resin; stipules caducous or persistent, subulate to linear; leaves with 7-11(-17) leaflets, leaflets acuminate at apex with a blunt to acute acumen, margin entire, glabrous or sometimes densely appressed hairy below, with 9-18 pairs of secondary veins; inflorescence terminal, sometimes with additional axillary ones, paniculate; flowers 6-9(-12) mm long, stamens 6; fruit narrowly oblong and acute at both ends, trigonous in cross-section, 27-40 mm × 10-20 mm, glabrous. ''C. dichotomum'' is found in primary or sometimes secondary forest in well-drained locations, up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the sapwood is 370-630 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

77, 99, 162, 342, 366, 474.


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