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Sindora galedupa (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Sindora galedupa]]'' Prain</big>
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:Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66: 483 (1897).
 
:Family: Leguminosae
 
== Synonyms ==
 
*''Galedupa indica'' Lam.,
*''Pahudia galedupa'' Backer ex K.Heyne.
== Vernacular names ==
*Indonesia: kayu galedupagaladupa (South Sulawesi), ay goa kayu gowa, ai kowa (Moluccas, Seram), mobingo (Sulawesi).
== Distribution ==
Indonesia (Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and the , Moluccas).
== Uses ==
After the bark of ''S. galedupa'' has been pounded, the tree exudes a black, sticky balsam, which after a long time hardens to a hard resin. Although itself not very aromatic, this balsam (the basis for the "dupa" of the Makassarese people), served to stick together other wood and resin parts and to strengthen their aroma. The timber is possibly used as like sepetir, a medium-heavy hardwood from ''Sindora'' species.
== Observations ==
A medium*Tree, up to 25 m tall.*Leaves alternate, compound, usually 4-sized treejugate; leaves with 6-petiole up to 3 cm long, rachis 8 -14 cm long; leafletselliptical to ovate or obovate, leaflets 3.54-12.5 13 cm × 2.53-6 7 cm, base usually unequally sided, apex acute to obtuse, thinly leathery, puberulous beneath when young but glabrescent; flowers with c. 7 mm *Inflorescence paniculate, up to 17(-37) cm long densely puberulous .*Flowers dirty yellow or light brown, fragrant; calyx lobeslanceolate, about 1 cm long, densely puberulous, but with a glabrous margin and lacking spines; pod circular to broadly ellipticalpetals about 6 mm long; stamens 9 (2 fertile, up 7 sterile) and 1 staminode.*Fruit a flattened, suborbicular to ellipsoidal pod, 6(-9.10 cm × 5) cm, at almost a right angle on a fruit stalk 1 cm long, smooth and without spines, with a very short beak, 1-2-seeded.*Seed suborbicular to broadly ellipsoidal, about 2 cm × 1.8 cm, compressed, with a small aril.  ''S. galedupa'' grows in forest and on forest edges from sea-level to 120 m altitude. It flowers in April-July and fruits in April-December. Not much is known about this species.
== Selected sources ==
186.timbers 11, 18, 23. exudates
[[Category:Exudates (PROSEA)]]
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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