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Canarium odontophyllum (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Canarium odontophyllum]]'' Miq.</big>
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:Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl.: 525 (1861).

== Synonyms ==

''Canarium beccarii'' Engl. (1883), ''Canarium palawanense'' Elmer (1913), ''Canarium multifidum'' H.J. Lam (1932).

== Vernacular names ==

*Indonesia: danau majang (Sumatra), kurihang, dawai (Kalimantan)
*Malaysia: kedondong (Sabah), dabang (Sarawak).

== Distribution ==

Sumatra, Borneo and Palawan.

== Uses ==

The wood is used as kedondong. In Sarawak ''C. odontophyllum'' is grown for its edible fruits.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole branchless for up to 18 m, up to 60 cm in diameter, with buttresses, inner bark exuding a little whitish resin; stipules persistent, inserted near or at the base of the petiole, orbicular to oblong and dentate to finely lacerate; leaves with 7-17 leaflets, leaflets distinctly acuminate at apex, margin dentate to serrate, sparsely to densely hairy below and on the midrib above, with 15-28 pairs of secondary veins which are slightly raised or flat above and prominent below; inflorescence axillary, laxly paniculate; male flowers 4-7 mm long, female ones 8-9 mm long, stamens 6; fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly triangular in cross-section, 25-35 mm × 17-20 mm, glabrous. ''C. odontophyllum'' is locally common in primary forest, up to 450 m altitude. The density of the wood is 530-720 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

77, 99, 162, 342, 366.


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