Santiria laevigata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Santiria laevigata Blume
- Protologue: Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 211 (1850).
Synonyms
Santiria rufescens Blume (1850), Santiria violacea H.J. Lam (1932).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: pegah kabu-kabu (Sumatra), kambajau burung (south-eastern Kalimantan), tapi-tapi (central Sulawesi)
- Malaysia: kedondong kerantai lichin (general), kerantai (Sabah), berambang (Sarawak).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, central Sulawesi and the Philippines (Mindanao).
Uses
S. laevigata is one of the principal sources of kedondong timber; the wood is used for e.g. posts and planks, furniture and parang handles. The fruits are edible.
Observations
A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, bole up to 90 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 4 m high, bark surface flaking, lenticellate, rusty red, fawn or grey, inner bark finely laminated, pinkish, with sparse creamy white resinous exudate; leaves with 3-11 leaflets, petioles channelled to terete at base, leaflets ovate to oblong, 5-26(-35) cm × 2-8(-11) cm, glabrous or sometimes sparsely hairy on the veins below, secondary veins 8-22 pairs without transverse veins, reticulations distinct on both surfaces; flowers 2 mm long, green to white, stamens 6; fruit 10-20 mm × 7-20 mm, turning yellow and red and finally black, stigma up to 90excentric. S. laevigata is common in lowland forest, sometimes in peat-swamp forest, up to 1500 m altitude. Two forms are recognized: forma laevigata with 5-15 mm thick branchlets and channelled to sharply flattened petioles, and forma glabrifolia (Engl.) H.J. Lam (synonym: Santiria glabrifolia Engl.) with 3-6 mm thick branchlets and more or less terete petioles. The density of the wood is 470-860 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
9, 77, 78, 99, 162, 196, 277, 386, 402, 410, 455, 463, 465, 474, 485, 549, 562, 618, 619, 705.