Terminalia nitens (PROSEA)
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Terminalia nitens Presl
- Protologue: Abh. Kön. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. V, 6: 574 (1851).
- Family: Combretaceae
Synonyms
- Terminalia merrillii Elmer (1915).
Vernacular names
- Philippines: sakat (Filipino), dalinsi (Tagalog), magtalishai (Bikol), anegep (Iloko), kalaotit (Igorot).
Distribution
The Philippines.
Uses
The wood is used e.g. for construction under cover, furniture and boat building. The wood is moderately heavy (670-770 kg/m3) and moderately hard, but perishable when exposed to the weather or in contact with the ground. The bark yields a straw-yellow dye. It may be used directly in tanneries, but the tannin content is not high enough (9-33%) for the manufacture of tannin extract.
Observations
- A medium-sized deciduous tree up to 25 m tall, bole branchless for up to 12 m, up to 100 cm in diameter, with small buttresses, bark surface flaky, dark brown, inner bark pale yellow
- Leaves obovate to narrowly obovate, 7-12 cm × 3.5-6.5 cm, cuneate at base, glabrous or sometimes pubescent on the veins below, with 6-9 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 1-1.5 cm long
- Flowers small, in axillary spikes 7-10 cm long, calyx tube usually glabrous
- Fruit ellipsoid, 3-5 cm × 1.8-2 cm, glabrous, not winged.
T. nitens occurs in primary forest at low and medium altitudes, often in more open locations in dipterocarp forest. The density of the pale yellow to yellow-brown wood is 670-770 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
125, 162, 384, 414, 527, 666. (in Timbers)
10, 24, 35, 41, 47. (in Dyes)