Cryptocarya aureosericea (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Cryptocarya aureosericea Kosterm.
- Protologue: Reinwardtia 7: 301 (1968).
Distribution
New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as medang.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole up to 60 cm in diameter, with steep buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface smooth, rugulose with fine vertical lines of lenticels, sometimes hoop-marked, inner bark pink-fawn with dark brown fibres set in discrete radial lines; leaves arranged spirally, broadly elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, up to 17 cm × 9 cm, apex usually abruptly acuminate, with 7 pairs of secondary veins, densely golden sericeous below; inflorescence up to 12 cm long; perianth densely sericeous, pedicel very short; fruit globose but flattened at the top, c. 1.5 cm across, finely ribbed. C. aureosericea is found in ridge forest, up to 900 m altitude.
Selected sources
318.