Intsia palembanica (PROSEA)
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Intsia palembanica Miq.
- Protologue: Fl. Ind. Bat., Suppl. 1 (Prodr. Fl. Sum.): 289 (1861).
Synonyms
- Afzelia palembanica (Miq.) Baker (1879),
- Intsia bakeri (Prain) Prain (1901),
- Intsia plurijuga Harms (1917).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: ipi, ipil (general), maharan (Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: anglai, alai (Peninsular)
- Papua New Guinea: kwila
- Philippines: ipil (general)
- Thailand: lumpho, mue-ba (peninsular), salumpho (south-eastern).
Distribution
Southern Burma, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and western New Guinea.
Uses
I. palembanica is the main source of merbau timber. Young seeds are sometimes eaten. A dye is obtained from the bark and wood. Bark and leaves are used medicinally.
Observations
- A medium-sized or large tree up to 50 m tall, bole branchless for up to 22 m and up to 150 cm in diameter.
- Leaves with (3-)4(-7) pairs of leaflets, leaflets thickly leathery and glossy with a rounded or broadly cuneate base and a blunt to emarginate apex, 8-13.5 cm × 4-10.5 cm.
- Flowers pale yellowish.
I. palembanica often occurs near the coast but is found inland more frequently than I. bijuga, up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is 500-1000 kg/m3 at 12% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
70, 71, 89, 100, 102, 153, 184, 318, 320, 395, 417, 448, 462, 477, 514, 601, 603, 626, 725, 750, 799.
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Authors
- M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)