Vatica vinosa (PROSEA)
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Introduction |
Vatica vinosa P. Ashton
- Protologue: Gard. Bull. Sing. 19: 318 (1962).
Vernacular names
- Brunei: resak tangkai unggu.
Distribution
Northern Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah, north-eastern Kalimantan).
Uses
The timber is used as resak.
Observations
- A small to medium-sized tree, up to 30 m tall with straight, cylindrical bole up to 40 cm in diameter and small buttresses.
- Leaves elliptical to lanceolate, 6-15 cm × 1.5-4.5 cm, with 12-20 pairs of secondary veins, pubescent on veins beneath, petiole 6-13 mm long.
- Inflorescences up to 7 cm long.
- Flower buds up to 6 mm long.
- Nut globose, up to 8 mm long, densely wine-red pubescent, with 5 equal, revolute fruit calyx lobes reflexed at base but curving outwards and more or less rotate apically.
V. vinosa is found in mixed dipterocarp forest on fertile clayey soil below 300 m altitude. The wood is reported to be hard, with a density of about 915 kg/m3 at 15% moisture content.
Selected sources
30, 748.
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Authors
- R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)