Pouteria macropoda (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Pouteria macropoda (H.J. Lam) Baehni

Protologue: Candollea 9: 410 (1942).

Synonyms

• Planchonella macropoda H.J. Lam (1932).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used.

Observations

• A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, ovate-elliptical, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, puberulous when young, but glabrescent.
• Flowers in many-flowered clusters, borne on slender pedicels 13-18 mm long, white.
• Fruit ovoid, obovoid to subglobose, 1-4 cm long, glabrous except at base, greyish-green to dark purple.

P. macropoda is found in the mountains, at 1800-2400 m altitude.

Selected sources

36, 732.

Main genus page

• Pouteria

Authors

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