Vatica maingayi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vatica maingayi Dyer

Protologue: Fl. Brit. India 1: 302 (1874).

Synonyms

• Sunaptea maingayi (Dyer) Ridley (1922).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: resak lidi, jenuong (Peninsular), resak daun merah (Sabah).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra (Palembang) and northern Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah).

Uses

The timber is used as resak.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree, with bole up to 60 cm in diameter and buttresses very small or absent.
• Leaves elliptical, 5.5-12.5 cm × 1-5 cm, with 9-11 pairs of secondary veins, glabrescent, petiole 10-25 mm long.
• Inflorescences short, up to 4 cm long.
• Flower buds up to 10 mm long.
• Nut globose, up to 7 mm long, surrounded by 2 longer and 3 shorter fruit calyx lobes, free to the base.

V. maingayi is closely related to V. cuspidata, V. nitens and V. lowii, but differs from the former 2 species especially in having fewer secondary veins and from the latter species in the larger size of the major fruit calyx lobes. It is locally frequent on flat land and hillsides up to 500 m altitude. The wood is reported to be heavy (density 865-985 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content) and hard.

Selected sources

100, 102, 253, 425, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Vatica

Authors

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