Durio affinis (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Durio affinis Becc.
- Protologue: Malesia 3: 246, t. 24 (1889)
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: punggai (Iban, Sarawak).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, Kalimantan).
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as durian.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, with bole up to 50 cm in diameter having short buttresses or slightly fluted at base, bark surface smooth, grey-brown; leaves lanceolate, 8-18 cm × 2-4 cm, densely scaly below; flowers in short, hardly branched inflorescence on branches, petals up to 65 mm long, white, stamens united into a tube, opening by a slit; fruit ellipsoid-globose, up to 9.5 cm long, outside orange-yellow with broadly pyramidal spines. D. affinis is closely related to D. testudinarum and possibly conspecific and only differs in the position of the inflorescence on the tree. It occurs in lowland forest up to 300 m altitude. D. affinis is rare in Peninsular Malaysia and probably not common in Borneo; in Sarawak it occurs infrequently on loamy soils in dipterocarp forest.
Selected sources
12, 26, 77, 312, 576, 705, 724.