Ctenolophon parvifolius

Content

Description

Tree, 12-40 m, 15-120 cm diam., buttressed. Leaves glabrous, narrowly ovate to elliptic, sometimes obovate, often with ± parallel margins, 5-15 by 2-6 cm; Stipules boat-shaped, triangular to ovate, 1.5-2.5(-3) by 1-1.5 mm; Sepals appressed, densely appressedly to patently tufted-hairy to (the inner 3 marginally) glabrous, glabrous within but inner base with a row of up to 0.8 mm long bristles, boat-shaped, obovate to depressed ovate, ciliate, 1-2.5 by 1.5-4.7 mm, the outer two smallest. Petals recurved and more or less twisted in anthesis, stout, thin-leathery, densely appressedly tufted-hairy without except the overlapping margin and the base, glabrous within, slightly asymmetric, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 7-12 by 2-2.5 mm; Stamens inserted halfway up to just below the margin of the disk, short filaments 3.7-6.5 mm, long filaments 4.5-7.5 mm. Panicles rather densely flowered, terminal and up to 7 together, or 2-3 in the axil of a leaf near the end of the twigs, sometimes ramiflorous, up to 3 times branched, broadly ovoid to depressed obovoid, 3—9(—16) cm long. Ovary ± constricted at base, ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5-3 by 1-2 mm. Fruit 1-celled, densely appressedly tufted-hairy, ellipsoid to obovoid, 13-24 by 6-13 mm, sometimes basally curved; Seed ellipsoid to obovoid, 12-20 by 5-9 mm, dangling from a filiform columella (10—)15—20 mm long;

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Japen I present, Leyte present, Mindanao present, Samar present

Malesia: Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Philippines (Samar, Leyte, Mindanao), and New Guinea (incl. Japen I.). .

Uses

The hard and very durable timber is used for house construction and as general purpose timber (SCHNEIDER, 1916; RIDLEY, 1922; DESCH, 1954; BURKILL, 1966).

Citation

MEIJER 1968: p. 151. – In: Bull. Herb. For. Dep. Sandakan: fig.

VAN HOOREN & NOOTEBOOM 1984 – In: Blumea: 547

King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 106

RIDLEY 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 423

BULLOCK 1960 – In: Kew Bull.: 41

OLIVER 1966: Dict., ed. 2: 705

OLIVER 1972 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 306

OLIVER 1976 – In: Sabah For. Rec.: 205

MAST. 1875 – In: Fl. Br. India: 577

King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 106

DESCH 1954 – In: Man. Mal. Timbers: 15

BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 120

BECC. 1877 – In: Malesia: 119

RIDLEY 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 423

ANDERSON 1983: Checklist Trees Sarawak: 239

Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philip.: 326