Campnosperma auriculatum
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Description
Tree up to 38 m high and 80(-135)cm Ø.
Bark white to fawn, hoop-marked, smooth or shallowly fissured and/or papery flaky.
Leaves obovate to oblanceplate, 12-63 by 5-20 cm (up to 72(-120) by 18(-25)cm on vegetative twigs or sapling), pubescent on both surfaces when young, glabrescent and sometimes almost glabrous except the basal part;
Flowers lemon yellow.
Petals broadly elliptic or ovate, 1-1½ by ½-⅔ mm.
Stamens ½-1¼ mm;
Panicles up to 50 cm long, profusely branched, branches up to 20 cm;
Ovary subglobose, c. ¾ mm Ø.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Peninsular Thailand present
Peninsular Thailand and Malesia: widely distributed in Sumatra, Banka, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo.
Uses
The timber is used for making canoes (). Exudate from the wood is called terentang-oil (), which is harmful to some persons (CORNER, 1940).
Mr. K. M. KOCHUMMEN (Kepong, in litt. 25-3-76) informed me that there is no information regarding its (local) uses in Malaya. He said that one of their officers once got a bad attack of irritation similar to that of rengas on his hands by getting into contact with the oil.
Mr. K. M. KOCHUMMEN (Kepong, in litt. 25-3-76) informed me that there is no information regarding its (local) uses in Malaya. He said that one of their officers once got a bad attack of irritation similar to that of rengas on his hands by getting into contact with the oil.
Citation
THOMAS 1950: p. 88. – In: Mal. For.: t. 8
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 222
Engl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 534
SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 2
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 253
DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 5
MERR. & PERRY 1941 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 535
BAKER 1924 – In: J. Bot.: Suppl. 30
Hook.f. 1940: Ways. Trees: 104: f. 20, Atlas, t. 4
Ridl. 1911 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 38
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 495
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 320
ENGL 1883: p. 320. – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: t. 11, f. 22-25
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 637
WYATT-SMITH 1927: p. 143. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: photogr.
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 494
MEIJER 1974: Field Guide Trees W. Mal.: 105
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 534
SETTEN 1956 – In: Mal. For.: 32
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 253
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 421
BURK. 1935: Dict.: 421