Vatica flavovirens (PROSEA)

File:Logo PROSEA.png

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Vatica flavovirens v. Slooten

Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 17: 252 (1942).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: hulodiri puteh, hulodiri motaha (Tobala, Sulawesi), awalasa (Buginese, Sulawesi).

Distribution

South-eastern Sulawesi.

Uses

The timber is used as resak.

Observations

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall.
• Ieaves narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 8-21 cm × 2-7 cm, with 12-14 pairs of secondary veins, glabrescent, petiole 13-25 mm long.
• Inflorescences up to 14 cm long.
• Flower buds up to 10 mm long.
• Nut subglobose, up to 7 mm long, surrounded by 2 longer and 3 shorter fruit calyx lobes, all free to the base.

V. flavovirens is locally common on hill slopes up to 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 990-1060 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

748.

Main genus page

• Vatica

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)