Diospyros lolin (PROSEA Timbers)
Introduction |
Diospyros lolin Bakh.
- Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 7: 175 (1933).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: lolin, lorin, kayu arang (Moluccas).
Distribution
The Moluccas.
Uses
The wood is used as streaked ebony. The ripe fruits are eaten raw or roasted.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 32 m tall, bole branchless for up to 21 m, up to 50(-100) cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 2 m high, bark surface fissured, black to greyish mottled, inner bark reddish; leaves lanceolate to elliptical, 10-25 cm × (4-)6-10 cm, base obtuse to rounded, apex shortly acuminate, soon glabrescent, tertiary venation reticulate, prominent on both surfaces; male flowers in 3-5-flowered cymes, 4-merous, stamens 16-24; female flowers solitary, 4(-5)-merous, calyx lobes overlapping, sericeous outside, corolla divided to one-third, staminodes many, ovary with a single style and 8-10 uni-ovulate locules; fruit depressed globose, about 4 cm across, glabrous. D. lolin occurs up to 250 m altitude. The wood is of good quality and nicely figured, but difficult to work.
Selected sources
42, 403, 586, 673.