Pouteria maingayi (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia
Introduction

List of species

Pouteria maingayi (C.B. Clarke) Baehni

Protologue: Candollea 9: 343 (1942).

Synonyms

Sideroxylon maingayi C.B. Clarke (1882),
Lucuma maingayi (C.B. Clarke) Dubard (1912),
Planchonella maingayi (C.B. Clarke) P. v. Royen (1957).

Vernacular names

Indonesia: nyatuh bungo tanjong, mayang rata (Sumatra)
Malaysia: nyatoh nangka merah, nangka-nangka (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as nyatoh.

Observations

A medium-sized to large tree up to 43 m tall, with columnar bole up to 80 cm in diameter, buttressed.
Leaves evenly distributed, obovate, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, glabrous when mature.
Flowers in up to 15-flowered clusters in leaf axils, borne on 2-4 mm long pedicels, whitish.
Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid or subglobose, 2-5 cm long, glabrous, green.

P. maingayi occurs throughout Peninsular Malaysia; it usually grows scattered in lowland primary forest, but is locally very common in peat swamps. As it is one of the most widely distributed big-tree Sapotaceae in Peninsular Malaysia, it is probably an important nyatoh timber-producing species there. The wood is creamy white or light yellow and is fairly heavy with a density of 680-880 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

36, 102, 190, 581, 732, 779.

Main genus page

Pouteria

Authors

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