Santiria griffithii (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Santiria griffithii (Hook.f.) Engl.
- Protologue: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 1: 43 (1881).
Synonyms
Trigonochlamys griffithii Hook.f. (1860), Santiria bornensis Engl. (1881).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: kedongdong (Sumatra), penyantong (Bangka), celankap laki gunung (south-eastern Kalimantan)
- Malaysia: kedondong kerantai (general), kedondong pasir (Peninsular), pamutalun (Sabah).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Bangka and Borneo.
Uses
The wood is used as kedondong, e.g. for doors, windows and plywood.
Observations
A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(-45) m tall, bole branchless for up to 25 m, up to 80(-120) cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 2 m high, bark surface dippled and scaly, pale greenish-grey or greenish-brown, inner bark gritty, straw-coloured, with pale exudate; leaves with (7-)11-21(-31) leaflets, petiole hardly or sometimes strongly flattened at base, leaflets elliptical-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-10(-17.5) cm × 1-3.5(-4.5) cm, usually pubescent on the veins below, secondary veins 11-15(-20) pairs without transverse veins, reticulations faint above; flowers 4-10 mm long, with reddish calyx and yellowish-white petals, stamens 6; fruit 8-13 mm × 8-16 mm, blue, stigma about 90excentric. S. griffithii is fairly common in primary and secondary forest on dry or rarely swampy locations, up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 600-920 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
77, 162, 196, 401, 463, 465, 474, 485, 506, 705, 743.