Pentace burmanica (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Pentace burmanica Kurz
- Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 40(2): 47 (1871).
Vernacular names
- Burma mahogany (En).
- Burma (Myanmar): thitka, thit-kashit, thit-so
- Cambodia: sisièt
- Thailand: sisiat, sisiat-pluak (central, peninsular), sisiat-om (north-eastern).
Distribution
Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China (Cambodia) and Thailand.
Uses
The wood is used for furniture and cabinet work, boat building and other decorative purposes. The bark is chewed with betel nut.
Observations
- A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole straight, up to 100 cm in diameter, bark surface shallowly fissured to scaly and flaky, dark greyish-brown.
- Leaves elliptical to ovate or subobovate, 10-15 cm × 5-7 cm, margin entire or sinuate near apex, apex acute to acuminate, lower surface densely stellate-hairy, with c. 5 pairs of secondary veins, lower pair basal, petiole 1.5-2 cm long.
- Flowers densely stellate-pilose, petals c. 6 mm long.
- Fruit 5-winged, wings 4 cm × 2 cm.
P. burmanica is found in lowland evergreen forest up to 300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 640-705 kg/m3at 12% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
171, 315, 336, 380, 496, 526, 595.