Dialium indum (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

List of species

Dialium indum L.

Protologue: Mant. pl. (Syst. Nat. ed. 12, Vol. 2): 24 (1767).

Synonyms

Dialium laurinum Baker (1878),
Dialium patens Baker (1878),
Dialium angustifolium Ridley (1929),
Dialium marginatum de Wit (1953),
Dialium turbinatum de Wit (1953).

Vernacular names

Indonesia: keranji (general)
Malaysia: keranji kertas basar, keranji tebal besar, keranji paya (general)
Thailand: yi, kayi khao (peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as keranji. The fruits are edible. The bark can be used for tanning.

Observations

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole columnar, branchless for up to 12 m and up to 100 cm in diameter.
Leaflets 5-9, 6-11 cm × 2.5-5 cm, glabrous.
Sepals 5, petals 0, stamens 2.
Fruit globose to ovoid, 1.5-3 cm × 1-2 cm.

D. indum occurs in swamp and peat-swamp forests, on well-drained flat country and in hills up to 1150 m altitude. The density of the wood is 795-1060(-1250) kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

100, 102, 146, 153, 188, 190, 235, 359, 401, 587, 626, 779, 796.

Main genus page

Dialium

Authors

J.P. Rojo (selection of species)