Scaphium longipetiolatum (PROSEA)
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Scaphium longipetiolatum (Kosterm.) Kosterm.
- Protologue: Bull. Bot. Survey Ind. 7: 128 (1965; "longepetiolatum").
Synonyms
- Microcos longipetiolata Kosterm. (1962).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: kembang semangkok jantan (Sabah).
Distribution
Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, northern East Kalimantan).
Uses
The timber is occasionally traded as kembang semangkok.
Observations
- A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall with bole up to 75 cm in diameter, having large plank buttresses.
- Leaves elliptical or narrowly elliptical, ovate or obovate, 7-28 cm × 4.5-14 cm, cuneate at base, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, with 3-5 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous, petiole up to 12 cm long.
- Fruit up to 20 cm long; seed up to 25 mm long, glabrous.
S. longipetiolatum occurs locally frequent on well-drained and clayey soils, particularly in primary forest on ridges and on hills, up to 800 m altitude.
Selected sources
33, 146.
Main genus page
Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)