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Madhuca kingiana (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Madhuca kingiana]]'' (Brace ex King & Gamble) H.J. Lam</big>
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:Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 7: 159 (1925).
== Synonyms ==
*''Bassia'' ''kingiana'' Brace ex King & Gamble (1905), *''Ganua'' ''kingiana'' (Brace ex King & Gamble) v.d. Assem (1953).
== Vernacular names ==
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with columnar bole up to 60 cm in diameter, buttresses small or absent; leaves .*Leaves densely clustered at tips of twigs, narrowly elliptical to elliptical or obovate, 17.5-32.5 cm × 5-10 cm, secondary veins joined in arches near margin, glabrous, stipules up to 18 mm long, fairly persistent; flowers .*Flowers with sepals finely woolly outside, 12-16-lobed whitish corolla, 24-36 stamens and hairy ovary; fruit .*Fruit ovoid to globose, c. 1.5 cm in diameter, with rather thin pericarp.  ''M.'' ''kingiana'' occurs in lowland rain forest, on hills and ridges, up to 400 m altitude. It is locally common in Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah. The density of the wood is about 750 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
36, 100, 581, 728, 779, 781, 792.
== Main genus page ==
 
*[[Madhuca (PROSEA Timbers)|''Madhuca'' (Timbers)]]
 
== Authors ==
 
*R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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