Terminalia polyantha (PROSEA)
Introduction |
Terminalia polyantha Presl
- Protologue: Abh. Kön. Böhm. Ges. Wiss. V, 6: 574 (1851).
Synonyms
Terminalia parviflora Presl (1851).
Vernacular names
- Philippines: bagiraua (Filipino), anagap (Tagalog), bangles (Iloko).
Distribution
The Philippines; erroneously recorded for Indo-China (Laos).
Uses
The wood is used e.g. for house construction and general construction under cover. The bark yields a dye.
Observations
A small tree up to 10 m tall, bole up to 20 cm in diameter; leaves ovate to elliptical or suborbicular, 3-8 cm × 1.5-5 cm, cuneate to rounded at base, usually glabrous or sparsely pubescent, sometimes tomentose on the main veins below, with 6-8 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 5-10 mm long; flowers in an axillary and terminal panicle 3-10 cm long, calyx tube glabrous; fruit ellipsoid to suborbicular, 8-15 mm × 7-12 mm, glabrous, (2-)4(-5)-winged. T. polyantha is fairly common in dry thickets and secondary forest, at low and medium altitudes. The pale brown to dark reddish-brown wood is heavier and harder than that of T. microcarpa .
Selected sources
125, 162, 527, 666.