Pouteria maclayana (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Pouteria maclayana (F. v. Mueller) Baehni
- Protologue: Candollea 9: 307 (1942).
Synonyms
- Lucuma maclayana (F. v. Mueller) H.J. Lam (1925),
- Lucuma navicularis H.J. Lam (1925).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: serindieng (Lingga), widorik utan (Moluccas).
Distribution
Lingga, the Talaud Islands, the Moluccas, the Kai Islands, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Uses
The timber is used locally as nyatoh for house-building. The fruits are sometimes eaten, but they are rather dry and not very palatable.
Observations
- A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall.
- Leaves clustered at tip of twigs, narrowly obovate or obovate-lanceolate, with transverse, rarely irregularly reticulate tertiary venation, initially puberulous but glabrescent on both sides.
- Flowers in usually 6-flowered clusters in leaf-axils, borne on rather stout 2-3 mm long pedicels.
- Fruit depressed-globose, very large, up to 13 cm in diameter, glabrous, greenish with yellow pulp.
In New Guinea P. maclayana is locally fairly common in primary rain forest up to 250 m altitude; possibly it is also locally not uncommon in the Moluccas. The wood is whitish, fairly light and not durable in contact with the soil.
Selected sources
36, 317, 318.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)