Gluta pubescens (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Gluta pubescens (Ridley) Ding Hou
- Protologue: Blumea 24: 15 (1978).
Synonyms
Melanorrhoea pubescens Ridley (1922).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: rengas, sisek tenggiling, sumpah biawak (Peninsular).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra (Tapanuli).
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as rengas.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large deciduous tree up to 40(-45) m tall, with bole up to 110 cm in diameter, sometimes fluted at base, buttresses occasionally present, up to 2 m high, bark surface very flaky or scaly, with loose overlapping scales, brown, inner bark reddish; leaves elliptical or obovate, 9-17 cm × 3.5-8.5 cm, rounded or emarginate at apex, pubescent below especially on the veins, with 11-18 pairs of secondary veins, petiole up to 3.5 cm long; flowers with circumscissile calyx, petals 9-13 mm long, white, torus subglobose, c. 2 mm in diameter, stamens numerous, ovary sparsely hairy; fruit transverse-oblong, up to 2.5 cm × 4.5 cm, smooth, with a stalk up to 15 mm long, usually without enlarged petals; cotyledons free. G. pubescens is locally common in lowland forest, in swamps and in dryland forest, especially on ridges.
Selected sources
78, 104, 162, 246, 705.