Spondias philippinensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Spondias philippinensis (Elmer) Airy Shaw & Forman

Family: Anacardiaceae

Synonyms

• Solenocarpus philippinensis (Elmer) Kosterm.

Vernacular names

• Brunei: kaya ala (Iban)
• Malaysia: basisihan (Sabah), rorsa rorsa (Sarawak).

Distribution

Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines.

Uses

The fruits are edible but sour.

Observations

• Hemi-epiphytic liana, up to 30 m long and 7 cm diameter, or shrub or small tree, up to 12 m tall.
• Fruit an oblongoid drupe, about 1 cm × 0.5 cm, yellow.

In primary forest.

Selected sources

• van Steenis, C.G.G.J. et al. (Editors), 1950-. Flora Malesiana. Series 1. Vol. 1, 4-10. Centre for Research and Development in Biology, Bogor, Indonesia, and Rijksherbarium, Leiden, the Netherlands. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.

Authors

P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen