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Canarium rigidum (PROSEA)

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

== Synonyms ==

''Canarium polyphyllum'' K. Schumann (1889), ''Canarium ledermannii'' Lauterb. (1920).

== Vernacular names ==

*Indonesia: hoddjai (Irian Jaya, Manokwari).

== Distribution ==

Northern and north-western New Guinea.

== Uses ==

The wood is used as kedondong, also for building prahus.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 45 cm in diameter, buttressed, bark surface grey; stipules absent; leaves with 7-25 leaflets, leaflets shortly acuminate to gradually long-acuminate at apex, margin entire, glabrous or minutely pubescent on the midrib above and main veins below, with 11-24 pairs of secondary veins which are prominent below; inflorescence axillary, laxly paniculate; male flowers 6 mm long, female ones 7.5 mm long, stamens 6; fruit ellipsoid, acute, circular to rounded triangular in cross-section, 40-50 mm × 20-25 mm, glabrous. ''C. rigidum'' occurs in primary and secondary forest, up to 1200 m altitude.

== Selected sources ==

162, 342, 366.


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