Artocarpus sepicanus (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artocarpus sepicanus Diels

Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 67: 176 (1935).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The wood is reputed to be used as terap or keledang.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall.
• Leaves elliptical or ovate-elliptical to ovate-oblong, base usually oblique and shallowly cordate, glabrous, with 9-16 pairs of secondary veins, stipules amplexicaul.
• Male head cylindrical, 5-7 mm across, on a 15-30 mm long peduncle; styles in female head bifid.
• Syncarp cylindrical, up to 1.5 cm across, areolate with fleshy, very short, truncate processes, velutinous.

A. sepicanus occurs in lowland evergreen forest up to 200 m altitude.

Selected sources

216, 262.

Main genus page

• Artocarpus (PROSEA Timbers)

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)