Terminalia myriocarpa (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Terminalia myriocarpa Heurck & Muell.-Arg.
- Protologue: Observ. bot.: 215 (1870).
Vernacular names
- Laos: khèo2nua2, sam ta. Burma (Myanmar): ye-taukkyan
- Thailand: sang (northern)
- Vietnam: chò xanh.
Distribution
India, Burma (Myanmar), Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and northern Sumatra.
Uses
The wood is used e.g. for house construction.
Observations
A fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole up to 65 cm in diameter, with low buttresses, bark surface scaly, brown; leaves opposite to subopposite, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8-20 cm × 2-8 cm, rounded to subcordate at base, tomentulose or appressed pubescent but glabrescent, with 16-30 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 3-7 mm long; flowers in a terminal panicle 10-20 cm long that has many spikes, calyx tube sericeous outside; fruit much wider than long, 3-4 mm × 5-7 mm, sericeous, 2-winged, occasionally a rudimentary third wing present. T. myriocarpa is found scattered along streams in evergreen hill forest, at 700-2000 m altitude. The density of wood samples from India is 815-865 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
162, 163, 185, 392, 449, 648.