Dryobalanops
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Description
Large or very large, occasionally medium-sized, trees;
Bark surface evenly or persistently shaggily flaked;
Leaves coriaceous, prominently acuminate, with slender dense hardly raised nervation;
Stipules linear, fugaceous.
Petals broadly elliptic, subacute, glabrous, hardly contorted in bud, united at base and falling in a rosette, white.
Stamens c. 30, glabrous, subequal, the innermost slightly longer than the outermost, epipetalous, yellow;
Ovary ± ovoid, glabrous, without distinct stylopodium;
Distribution
Amboyna in the Moluccas, Asia-Tropical: Cambodia (Cambodia); Malaya present, Borneo and intervening islands present, Central Sumatra present, S. India, S. Sumatra, W. Java
Malesia: 1 spp. in Malaya, Central Sumatra, Borneo and intervening islands.
Fossil wood records from S. India, Cambodia, S. Sumatra, W. Java and Amboyna in the Moluccas (). .
Fossil wood records from S. India, Cambodia, S. Sumatra, W. Java and Amboyna in the Moluccas (). .
Uses
The timber is an important moderately heavy and durable construction timber. D. aromatica was once a major source of camphor, obtained as crystals in splits within the bole by felling.
Citation
Wyatt-Smith 1955 – In: Mal. For.: 145
DC. 1868 – In: Prod.: 606
Sym. 1943: p. 191. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: f. 93
Brandis 1895 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 46
Heim 1892: Rech. Dipt.: 81
Browne 1955: For. Trees Sarawak & Brunei: 111
Brandis & Gilg 1895 – In: E. & P., Pfl. Fam., ed. 1, 3: 258
Burck 1887 – In: Ann. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 242
Gaertn.f. 1968: Man. Dipt. Brun.: 20
Meijer & Wood 1964 – In: Sabah For. Rec.: 278
Sloot. 1932 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 1
Ashton 1964: Man. Dipt. Brun.: 48
Dyer 1874: p. 98. – In: J. Bot.: t.142