Mangifera longipetiolata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
- Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 65(2): 470 (1896).
Synonyms
Mangifera quadrifida Jack var. longipetiolata (King) Kochummen (1983).
Vernacular names
- Thailand: mamuang-pa.
Distribution
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo; probably extinct in Java.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used. The fruit is probably not eaten as the pulp is juicy but fibrous and with a resinous taste.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, buttresses usually absent but sometimes small buttresses or large superficial roots present, bark surface smooth, cracked or superficially indistinctly fissured, greyish-brown; leaves oblong to elliptical-oblong, 9-25 cm × 6-10 cm; inflorescence pseudo-terminal, rarely axillary, lax, glabrous; flowers 4-merous, petals 3.5-4.5 mm long, cream-white or whitish-yellow, with 3 basal ridges, disk cushion-like, obscurely 4-lobed, one stamen fertile, staminodes small, free at the base; fruit obliquely subglobose, up to 9 cm long, pale greenish-yellow when ripe. M. longipetiolata is uncommon and occurs in lowland evergreen rain forest up to 900 m altitude.
Selected sources
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