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Durio grandiflorus (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Durio grandiflorus]]'' (Masters) Kosterm. & Soegeng</big>
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:Protologue: Commun. For. Res. Inst. Bogor 61: 10, fig. 7 (1958).
:Family: Bombacaceae
*Indonesia, Malaysia (Borneo): durian munjit (Malay), durian hantu hutan (Dusun Dajak), sukang (Sungei).
*Brunei: sukang
*Malaysia: durian munyit, durian hantu hutan, sukang (Sarawak, Sabah).
== Distribution ==
Northern Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak, Kalimantan)Brunei, Sabah); occasionally also cultivatedfor the fruits (e.g. in Brunei).
== Uses ==
The wood is reputed to be used as durian. The aril around the seeds seed is edible.
== Observations ==
*Tree, A medium-sized tree up to 20 30 m tall, with bole up to 50 cm in diameter, buttresses low and rounded, bark surface initially smooth and hoop-marked, becoming longitudinally cracked and flaky, and mauve-brown.*Leaves oblong to obovate, 9-24 cm × 3.5-8.5 cm, densely pale golden-brown scaly below.*Flowers solitary or 2 together, almost sessile in axils of fallen leaves or on older branches, petals up to 25 mm long, white, stamens partly in bundles, partly free, opening by a pore.*Fruit an ellipsoid capsule, up to 20 cm × 15 cm, with stiff pyramidal spines up to 2 cm long.
*Seeds brown, ellipsoidal, 3 cm long, each covered by yellow aril.
In rain forests ''D. grandiflorus'' resembles ''D. excelsus'' , but differs in the scaly lower leaf surface, the presence of Borneoa calyx tube, the stellately haired petals and the stamens partly arranged in bundles. It is locally common (especially in Sabah) in lowland mixed dipterocarp forest on clay-rich soils, up to 500 m altitude.
== Selected sources ==
*Kostermans, A.J.G.H., 1958. The genus Durio Adans. (Bombacaceae). Reinwardtia 4: 357-460.
 
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== Authors ==
*P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen  
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