Pouteria linggensis (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Pouteria linggensis (Burck) Baehni
- Protologue: Boissiera 11: 57 (1965).
Synonyms
- Planchonella linggensis (Burck) Pierre (1890),
- Planchonella oxyedra (Miq.) Dubard (1912) p.p.,
- Planchonella' littoralis (Ridley) H.J. Lam (1925).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: nyato sudu-sudu (Sumatra), towu landuk, jenggot (Java)
- Malaysia: membatu, geliti, tuak
- Philippines: loter (Panay Bisaya), empaparel (Tagbanua), panangkolauan (Bikol).
Distribution
Throughout Malesia; also in north-eastern Australia, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Niue.
Uses
The timber is used as nyatoh in Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Melanesia for house-building, and also for spears and hatchet-handles.
Observations
- A shrub, small or medium-sized tree, rarely up to 33 m tall.
- Leaves evenly distributed, elliptical or narrowly elliptical, obovate or lanceolate, with laxly reticulate tertiary venation, initially puberulous but soon glabrous or subglabrous on both sides.
- Flowers in 1-many-flowered clusters in leaf axils, borne on slender pedicels 3-10 mm long, white.
- Fruit ovoid, obovoid or globose, 0.8-2.7 cm long, glabrous except at base, green, pink or red.
P. linggensis is highly variable in the leaves (shape, size, indumentum, venation). Although this species is widespread, it is uncommon in many places. It usually grows in lowland rain forest (in Peninsular Malaysia on rocky sea coasts) up to 600 m altitude, occasionally up to 1000 m (e.g. Seram).
Selected sources
35, 36, 102, 480, 486, 581, 732, 779.
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Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)