Santiria conferta (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Santiria conferta Bennett
- Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 537 (1875).
Synonyms
Santiria wrayi King (1894).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: babi kurus, lalan, merdondong (Sumatra)
- Malaysia: kedondong kerantai (general), kedondong bulau, kerantai merah (Peninsular)
- Thailand: buk-yuak (Nakhon Si Thammarat).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, southern Sumatra, and Borneo (Sabah); possibly also in peninsular Thailand.
Uses
The wood is reputed to be used as kedondong.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35 m tall, bole up to 70 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark surface scaly-fissured, with small lenticels, grey or grey-brown to yellowish-brown, inner bark laminated, pale yellow with a pink tinge, exuding pale resin; leaves with 3-15 leaflets, petiole strongly channelled at base, leaflets lanceolate to oblong, 6.5-26 cm × 3-10 cm, densely pubescent but glabrescent below, secondary veins (9-)11-19 pairs with or without transverse veins, reticulations more distinct above than below; flowers 2-4 mm long, red, stamens 6; fruit 10-18 mm × 7-15 mm, white to bluish-black, stigma lateral to near the pedicel. S. conferta occurs in lowland to montane forest, mainly on slopes, up to 1800 m altitude. The density of the wood is 595-660 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
77, 162, 277, 474, 574, 705.