Calophyllum griseum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Calophyllum griseum P.F. Stevens

Protologue: Journ. Arn. Arb. 61: 661 (1980).

Distribution

North-western Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah, Brunei, Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is possibly used as bintangor.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 40 cm in diameter, without buttresses; twigs usually strongly 4-angled, terminal bud plump, 4.5-7 mm long.
• Leaves ovate or suboblong to elliptical, 8.5-16 cm long, cuneate at base, subrounded, acute or acuminate at apex, with 4-8 veins per 5 mm, upper surface usually with greyish, waxy covering.
• Inflorescences terminal and from adjacent leaf axils, branched, up to 20-flowered; flowers with 8 tepals.
• Fruit spherical to ellipsoid, 17-22 mm long, with fairly thick, subcompact outer layer having air spaces under the skin, pale greyish-brown.

C. griseum grows in well-drained mixed dipterocarp forest up to 400 m altitude.

Selected sources

648.

Main genus page

• Calophyllum

Authors

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