Homalium panayanum (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Homalium panayanum Fernandez-Villar
- Protologue: Nov. app.: 94 (1880).
Synonyms
Homalium myrianthum Baker (1896), Homalium subscandens Elmer (1912), Homalium obovatum Merr. (1925).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: malaban, kaninium (Dusun, Sabah), panawan (Bajan, Sabah)
- Philippines: ampupuyot (Bisaya), kandong (Iloko), puyot (Panay Bisaya).
Distribution
Borneo (Sabah) and the Philippines including Palawan.
Uses
The wood is used as malas, but probably only rarely, due to the general small size of the tree.
Observations
A shrub or small tree; leaves elliptical-obovate to oblong-obovate, (4-)5-10(-12) cm × 3-5 cm, entire to obscurely shallowly crenate, broadly obtusely acuminateor subrotund, glabrous, shiny above, dull beneath; panicles branched from near the base, greyish pubescent; flowers solitary, 6-7-merous, on c. 2.5 mm long pedicels, sepals and petals densely covered with spreading hairs, stamens solitary, in front of each petal. H. panayanum occurs in forest on hills and ridges from the lowland up to 1400 m altitude. The wood is reported to be similar to that of H. foetidum .
Selected sources
162, 527, 544.