Pouteria sussu (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Pouteria sussu (Engl.) Baehni

Protologue: Candollea 9: 315 (1942).

Synonyms

• Planchonella sussu (Engl.) H.J. Lam (1932).

Distribution

New Guinea.

Uses

The timber is reputed to be used.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall.
• Leaves evenly distributed, elliptical, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, glabrous on both sides.
• Flowers in few to many-flowered clusters in leaf axils (sometimes along a leafless axillary shoot), borne on 5-20 mm long pedicels.
• Fruit obovoid, 3-3.5 cm long, densely hairy but partly glabrescent.

P. sussu is closely related to P. firma. It grows in forest up to 1100 m altitude.

Selected sources

36, 732.

Main genus page

• Pouteria

Authors

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