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== Synonyms ==
*''Mangifera sclerophylla'' Hook.f. (1876),
*''Mangifera beccarii'' Ridley (1933).
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: rawa-rawa (Sumatra, Kalimantan), asem raba (West Kalimantan), romian (South Kalimantan)
*Malaysia: rawa (Peninsular), bahab, wahab (Sabah).
== Distribution ==
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo; also cultivated.
== Uses ==
The wood is reputed to be used. The fruit is edible and has sweet dark orange-yellow pulp.
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole branchless for up to 25 m and up to 80 cm in diameter, buttresses absent, bark surface smooth to peeling off in small scales, lenticellate in long vertical rows, sometimes ringed with hoops, pale yellowish-brown to grey.
*Leaves broadly elliptical to elliptical-oblong or obovate-oblong, 8-18 cm × 3-7.5 cm.
*Inflorescence axillary, few-branched, pubescent.
*Flowers 4-merous, petals c. 2 mm long,creamy-white, with 3-5 ridges on the inner surface confluent at their bases, the central ridge with a thick, truncate appendix, disk cushion-like and broad, unequally lobed, one stamen fertile, staminodes minute.
*Fruit cylindrical-oblong or ovoid-oblong, up to 3.5(-4) cm long, glossy and smooth, greyish-purple but turning purplish-black with a rose-red blush near the base when fully ripe.
''M. griffithii'' prefers temporarily inundated locations along rivers in lowland rain forest. Fruits are produced rather sporadically.
== Selected sources ==
104, 162, 328, 463, 465, 673, 705. timbers
* <font color=#901040>See also [[Mangifera (PROSEA Fruits)|''Mangifera'' (PROSEA Fruits)]] for the Fruit use.</font>
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
[[Category:Fruits and nuts (PROSEA)]]
[[Category:PROSEA]]
