Pouteria moluccana (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Pouteria moluccana (Burck) Baehni
- Protologue: Candollea 9: 327 (1942).
Synonyms
- Sideroxylon moluccanum Burck (1886),
- Planchonella moluccana (Burck) H.J. Lam (1925).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: kalaka, karosisi (Sulawesi).
Distribution
Flores, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.
Uses
The timber is reputed to be used.
Observations
- A small to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall.
- Leaves evenly distributed or more or less clustered at tip of twigs, ovate, obovate or elliptical, with distinct dense transverse tertiary venation, initially pubescent beneath but soon becoming glabrous.
- Flowers in many-flowered clusters in leaf axils, subsessile (pedicels up to 2 mm long).
- Fruit obovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm long, densely ferruginously woolly, green.
P. moluccana is closely related to P. firma, but differs in the sepals being glabrous inside and its subsessile flowers. In Sulawesi P. moluccana can be locally one of the dominant tree species in the forest. It is found up to 1800 m altitude.
Selected sources
36, 669, 732.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)