Terminalia subspathulata (PROSEA)
Introduction |
- Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66: 332 (1897).
Vernacular names
- Malaysia: jelawai jaha (Peninsular), talisei (Dusun, Sarawak), telinsi (Iban, Sarawak).
Distribution
Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.
Uses
The wood is used; T. subspathulata is a promising plantation species.
Observations
A large to very large tree up to 60 m tall, bole branchless for a considerable length, up to 135 cm in diameter, with plank buttresses up to 9 m high, bark surface narrowly cracked and regularly flaky, pale ochreous-brown to pale grey-brown, inner bark pale lemon-yellow; leaves oblanceolate to subspatulate, 4-14 cm × 1.5-6.5 cm, glabrous, glaucous below, with (5-)8-10 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 2-5 cm long; flowers in an axillary spike 6-20 cm long, calyx tube rufous sericeous; fruit broader than long, 2-3.5 cm × 3.5-8 cm, soon glabrescent, broadly 2-winged. T. subspathulata is locally frequent in lowland, often swampy forest, on damp hill sides and occasionally flooded alluvium with clay-rich soils, up to 1350 m altitude. The density of the pale yellow wood is 520-795 kg/m3at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
26, 77, 99, 162, 294, 464, 465, 705.