Mangifera parvifolia (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Mangifera parvifolia Boerl. & Koord.
- Protologue: Koord.-Schum., Syst. Verz. 2(5,2): 31 (1910).
Synonyms
Mangifera havilandii Ridley (1933).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: rawa (Sumatra, Kalimantan), rawa hutan, rawo (Sumatra).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia (rare), Sumatra and Borneo.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used. The fruit is small but edible when fully ripe; unripe fruits are very acid.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 37 m tall, with bole branchless up to 12 m and up to 80(-100) cm in diameter, bark surface smooth, finely and regularly longitudinally ridged or cracked, reddish-brown; leaves oblong or elliptical (rarely subovate-oblong), 6-16 cm × 2-6 cm; inflorescence pseudo-terminal or axillary, sometimes fascicled, rather few-flowered, very minutely pubescent; flowers 4-merous, petals 3-4 mm long, white, with 3 ridges confluent at base, disk large, cushion-like, 4-lobed, one stamen fertile, staminodes smaller, filaments free; fruit cylindrical or ellipsoid, up to 6 cm long, smooth and blue-black when ripe. M. parvifolia grows in forest along rivers and on periodically inundated lands, in peat-swamp forest, but also in forest on well-drained podzolic soils. Trees are reported to flower and fruit at long intervals. The wood is yellowish-white.
Selected sources
162, 328, 673.