Gonystylus consanguineus (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Gonystylus consanguineus Airy Shaw
- Protologue: Kew Bull. 17: 454 (1964).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: melingkat pepah (Dayak, West Kalimantan), ngalin (East Kalimantan), tempe-eng (Bassap-Mapulu, East Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: bidaru (Sabah).
Distribution
Borneo.
Uses
The timber is used as ramin.
Observations
- A medium-sized to fairly large tree of up to 40 m tall, bole branchless for up to 30 m, up to 80 cm in diameter, fluted at base and with small buttresses, bark surface not fissured, smooth or with elongated scales, red-brown to dark brown, inner bark laminated, cream to ochre, sapwood pale yellow.
- Leaves elliptical to oblong, 10-25 cm × 5-9 cm, broadly cuneate at base, abruptly caudate-acuminate at apex, glabrous or sparsely hairy on the midrib below, petiole 7-12 mm long.
- Inflorescence 10-13 cm long.
- Calyx lobes finally reflexed, petals about 30, small, glabrous.
G. consanguineus is locally common in primary or old secondary lowland (dipterocarp) forest on loamy or clayey soils or even limestone rocks, sometimes in periodically inundated locations, up to 400 m altitude.
Selected sources
9, 146.
Main genus page
Authors
- L.E. Groen (selection of species)