Durio singaporensis (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Durio singaporensis Ridley
- Protologue: Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Straits Br. 73: 143 (1916).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: durian bujor (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as durian.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 60 cm in diameter having short thin buttresses or without buttresses, bark surface smooth to rough with horizontal ridges, reddish-brown; leaves oblong, (7.5-)13-30 cm × (2.5-)4-8.5 cm, densely appressed coppery scaly below; flowers in a short few-flowered inflorescence on branches, petals up to 70 mm long, white, stamens in bundles united at base into a long tube, opening by a slit; fruit globose, rarely slightly ellipsoid, up to 11 cm in diameter, outside greenish with slender spines; seed without aril. D. singaporensis is locally common in lowland rain forest up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 750 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 104, 312, 463, 465, 705, 724.