Vatica javanica (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vatica javanica v. Slooten

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 16: 451 (1940).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: kayu tenjo (general).

Distribution

East Kalimantan and West Java.

Uses

The timber is probably used as resak.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree, up to 27 m tall.
• Leaves elliptical-oblong to obovate, 13-24 cm × 6-10 cm, often boat-shaped with concave lower surface, with 22-25 pairs of secondary veins, often bullate between the veins, glabrescent.
• Inflorescences up to 12 cm long.
• Flower buds up to 11 mm long.
• Nut globose, surrounded by 2 longer and 3 shorter fruit calyx lobes, free to the base.

Two subspecies are distinguished: subsp. scaphifolia (Kosterm.) P. Ashton (synonyms: Vatica scaphifolia Kosterm., Sunaptea scaphifolia (Kosterm.) Kosterm.) occurs locally abundant in lowland dipterocarp forest on well drained undulating land in East Kalimantan; subsp. javanica, which has no boat-shaped and no bullate leaves, is rare in primary forest at 950 m altitude in West Java. The density of the wood is about 610 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

748.

Main genus page

• Vatica

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)