Pentaspadon motleyi
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Description
Tree up to 50 m high and 70 cm Ø.
Bark greyish white, light brown or brown, smooth to rough, shallowly fissured, and irregularly flaked.
Flowers cream-coloured.
Petals obovate-oblong, 1½-2½ by 1-1½ mm.
Stamens ⅔ -1 mm;
Panicles up to 31cm long, tomentose, glabrescent and sometimes seemingly glabrous;
Ovary ½-¾ mm Ø.
Seed ovoid-oblong, compressed, 2½-4 by 1-2 cm.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Sumatera (Sumatera present), Bougainville present, Choiseul present, Solomon Is present, Ysabel present
Solomon Is. (Bougainville, Choiseul, Ysabel) and Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Moluccas, and New Guinea.
Ecology
CORNER observed that in Malaya "the trees shed their leaves and flower with the new foliage twice a year, about March to May and again about October to November. The crown is whitened by the fragrant blossom.".
Uses
See under the genus for timber and oil. Seeds are eaten fresh or roasted (cf. HEYNE, l.c. 978). See for other uses BURKILL l.c.
Citation
Miq. 1867: – Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 90
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 538
LANE-POOLE 1925: For. Res.: 109
HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl.: 977
ENGL 1883: p. 294. – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: t. 9, f. 30-36
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 1692
JACOBS 1961 – In: Acta Bot. Neerl.: 106
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 330
Corner 1940: Ways. Trees: 113
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 537
MEIJER 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. F. D. Sandakan: 30
Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 351
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 152