Mangifera rufocostata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Mangifera rufocostata Kosterm.
- Protologue: The mangoes: 116 (1993).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: asem kiat (southern Sumatra), asem tanduy (South Kalimantan), n'cham kelau (East Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: dumpiring (Sabah).
Distribution
Sumatra and Borneo, possibly also Peninsular Malaysia; occasionally in semi-cultivation.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used. The very acid fruit is eaten when other fruits are not available.
Observations
A large tree up to 45(-53) m tall, with bole branchless for up to 30 m and up to 120 cm in diameter, buttresses very small or absent, occasionally up to 2.5 m high, bark surface deeply fissured, yellowish-brown; leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, 12-30 cm × 4-10 cm; inflorescence pseudo-terminal, very lax, glabrous; flowers 5-merous, petals 4-5 mm long, white to yellowish, disk large, cushion-like, one stamen fertile; fruit obliquely globose, up to 10(-11) cm long, rather rough and dull, brownish-green with numerous brown lenticels when fully ripe. M. rufocostata occurs scattered, but sometimes locally fairly common, in evergreen lowland rain forest on well-drained soils, up to 1000 m altitude. The heartwood is blackish.
Selected sources
328.