Sandoricum

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Sandoricum

Description

Petals (4) 5, free, imbricate. Staminal tube margin with 5 or 10 short lobes; anthers glabrous. Ovary slightly sunken in receptacle, 4- or 5-locular, locules each with 2 colla- teral ovules. Seeds kidney-shaped, laterally compressed with thin sarcotesta; radicle apical, extending to surface or slightly exserted.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; New Guinea present, western Malesia present
Five species, all but one (S. koetjape) restricted to western Malesia, where the cultivated forms of S. koetjape may have arisen, though wild relations appear to be native as far east as New Guinea. All five are wild in Borneo, to which three species are restricted.

Uses

The fruit (where known as mature) of all species is edible and the timber of some value.

Citation

T.D.Penn. 1975 – In: Blumea: 507
Harms 1940 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 19bl: 170
T.D.Penn. 1981 – In: Fl. Neotrop.: 359
Mabb. 1985 – In: Blumea: 146.