Gluta curtisii (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Gluta curtisii (Oliver) Ding Hou
- Protologue: Blumea 24: 13 (1978).
Synonyms
Melanorrhoea curtisii Oliver (1886).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: rengas, rengas marah keluang (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia.
Uses
The wood is used as rengas.
Observations
A medium-sized tree up to 30(-34) m tall, with bole up to 70(-80) cm in diameter, buttresses usually small or absent, sometimes up to 2.5 m high, bark surface scaly, sometimes also dippled, usually orange-red, inner bark reddish; leaves elliptical-oblong or oblanceolate, 5-14 cm × 2.5-5 cm, rounded, obtuse or shortly acuminate at apex (rarely emarginate), glabrous, with 6-14(-18) pairs of secondary veins, petiole up to 2.5 cm long; flowers with circumscissile calyx, petals 4.5-6 mm long, white or pale lilac, torus subglobose, c. 1 mm in diameter, stamens (8-)10, ovary glabrous; fruit subglobose, c. 1 cm in diameter, with a c. 10 mm long stalk, with enlarged petals up to 9 cm long; cotyledons free. G. curtisii occurs locally frequently in lowland mixed rain forest up to 1200 m altitude, most commonly on ridges at 300-700 m. The density of the wood is 620-945 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
78, 104, 140, 162, 246, 651, 705.