Gonystylus lucidulus (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Gonystylus lucidulus Airy Shaw

Protologue: Kew Bull. 17: 447 (1964).

Distribution

North-eastern Sarawak and Brunei.

Uses

The timber is used as ramin.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree of up to 36 m tall, bole branchless for up to 27 m, up to 40 cm in diameter, fissured, bark surface scaly, dark brown, inner bark pale brown, sapwood pale yellow or yellow.
• Leaves oblong to elliptical-oblong, 10-20 cm × 5-8 cm, rounded at base and broadly but abruptly caudate, glabrous, petiole 12-18 mm long.
• Inflorescence up to 18 cm long.
• Fruit lanceolate-ovoid, 1.7 cm in diameter.

G. lucidulus occurs in primary lowland dipterocarp forest on low undulating hills, on yellow sandy soil, up to 300 m altitude.

Selected sources

9.

Main genus page

• Gonystylus

Authors

• L.E. Groen (selection of species)