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Palaquium herveyi (PROSEA)

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<big>''[[Palaquium herveyi]]'' King & Gamble</big>
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:Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 74(2): 197 (1905).
== Synonyms ==
*''Croixia'' ''herveyi'' (King & Gamble) Baehni (1965).
== Distribution ==
== Observations ==
*A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, with columnar bole up to 60 cm in diameter and plank buttresses; leaves .*Leaves fairly densely clustered at tip of twigs, obovate (sometimes elliptical), with slender, inconspicuous, transverse tertiary veins, sparsely puberulous or almost glabrous, but glaucous beneath; flowers .*Flowers in 2-6-flowered clusters, borne on c. 3 mm long pedicels (c. 10 mm in fruit); fruit .*Fruit globose to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm long, glabrous.  ''P. herveyi'' occurs scattered in lowland primary forest up to 350 m altitude and is locally common. The density of the timber is about 700 kg/m<sup>3</sup>at 15% moisture content.
== Selected sources ==
36, 102, 190, 743, 779, 792.
== Main genus page ==
 
*[[Palaquium (PROSEA Timbers)|''Palaquium'' (Timbers)]]
 
== Authors ==
 
*R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)
[[Category:Timbers (PROSEA)]]
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