Pouteria anteridifera (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Pouteria anteridifera (C. White & Francis) Baehni

Protologue: Candollea 9: 381 (1942).

Synonyms

• Planchonella anteridifera (C. White & Francis) H.J. Lam (1927).

Distribution

Papua New Guinea.

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used.

Observations

• A large tree up to 45 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, obovate-elliptical, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, densely puberulous beneath.
• Flowers many together in clusters, borne on 15-25 mm long pedicels, reddish-pink.
• Fruit obovoid or ellipsoid, 4.5-7.5 cm long, glabrous and green.

P. anteridifera grows in rain forest up to 500 m altitude.

Selected sources

732.

Main genus page

• Pouteria

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)