Cerbera odollam

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Cerbera odollam

Description

Tree or shrub to 12 m tall, to 20 cm dbh. Branchlets with very visible leaf scars, glabrous. Leaves: Inflorescence few- to many-flowered, robust, lax, 8.8-35 cm long, glabrous; Sepals linear, narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate, 8.6-26 by 2.6-5 mm, 2-6 times as long as wide, apex acute or acuminate; Stamens inserted around the middle of corolla tube at 9.5-12.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.5-0.6 of tube length; Ovaries 1.2-1.7 mm long; Fruit spherical to ovoid;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present, Singapore present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), From South India and Sri Lanka to the western Pacific Islands present
From South India and Sri Lanka to the western Pacific Islands; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Java, Philippines, Sulawesi.

Uses

Same uses as C. manghas. Frequently grown as a roadside tree.

Notes

See note under C. manghas.

Citation

Whitmore 1973 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 12
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 413
King & Gamble 1907 – In: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 427
H. Huber 1973 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 1: 18
Wight 1841 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 441
Gaertn. 1952 – In: Wayside Trees Malaya, ed. 2: 144
Kessler & Sidiy. 1994: Trees Balikpapan-Samarinda: 53
K. Schum. & Lauterb. 1901: Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 505
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 339
K. Schum. & Hollrung 1889: Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land: 111
Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 339
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 233
Hook.f. 1882 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 638
H. Huber 1983 – In: Abeyw. (ed.), Revis. Handb. Fl. Ceylon 4: 53
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees Malaya: 144
D.J. Middleton 2004 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak: 25
Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3: 1137
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 67
Kerr 1939 – In: Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 436
I.M. Turner 1997 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 47: 125
Leeuwenb. 1999 – In: Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap.: 34
Fl. Ned. Ind. 1861: Eerste Bijv.: 553
Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 414
Hochr. 1934 – In: Candollea: 181
Hallier 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 375
J.A.R. Anderson 1980: Checklist Trees Sarawak: 148
M. Gangop. & Chakr. 1992 – In: J. Econ. Taxon. Bot.: 36
Lý 1986 – In: Feddes Repert.: 445
Gaertn. 1998 – In: PROSEA: 156
Kessler et al. 2002 – In: Blumea: 13
I.M. Turner 1993 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 45: 35
Gaertn. 2001 – In: PROSEA: 154
P.S. Ashton 1988 – In: Man. non-Dipt. Trees Sarawak: 28
Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 171