Pouteria luzoniensis (PROSEA)
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Pouteria luzoniensis (Merr.) Baehni
- Protologue: Candollea 9: 365 (1942).
Synonyms
- Sideroxylon luzoniense Merr. (1906).
Vernacular names
- Philippines: banokbok, malapaho (Tagalog), amemangkas (Samar-Leyte Bisaya).
Distribution
Bali, Sulawesi, Borneo (Sabah), the Philippines and New Guinea.
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used.
Observations
- A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall but usually smaller.
- Leaves evenly distributed, ovate, narrowly ovate or obovate, with indistinct, irregularly reticulate or transverse tertiary venation, densely pubescent (sometimes subglabrous) beneath.
- Flowers in 2-6-flowered clusters, subsessile, whitish to pale brown.
- Fruit globose, about 2 cm long, puberulous at base and apex, greenish to purplish.
Plants from New Guinea belong to var. papuana Erlee, which differs from var. luzoniensis in its smaller leaves with shorter petioles and in the hairy corolla. P. luzoniensis usually grows on rocks, in Sabah on the sea shore; in the Philippines up to 700 m altitude. In Papua New Guinea it locally dominates the forest up to 1000 m, in association with Araucaria spp.
Selected sources
100, 206, 317, 480, 486.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)