Ochanostachys amentacea

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Ochanostachys amentacea

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Description

Tree, (5-) 10-30 (rarely -50) m high; Branchlets glabrous or puberulous, rarely rufous-tomentellous-scurfy at tips. Leaves ovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sometimes slightly inequilateral, apex short-acuminate, tip blunt, base broadly cuneate to rounded, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, usually glabrous, rarely rufous-tomentellous on the nerves beneath (Borneo), green and shining above, yellowish-green beneath when fresh, rather dull olivaceous-brownish when dry, usually sparsely shallowly tuber-cled on both faces, the tubercles (or slightly impressed dots) in part blackish, (5-) 6-13 by (2.5-) 3-7 cm; Flowers green to whitish-yellowish, subsessile, or pedicelled up to 1 mm. Flowers arranged interruptedly, either solitary or mostly 2 or 3 together in opposite clusters, all over subglabrous or puberulous, rarely scurfy rufous-tomentellous (Borneo); Petals (3-) 4 (-5), ovate to ovate-oblong, with a few coarse hairs inside, 2.5 by 1.5 mm. Ovary depressed-ovoid, lengthwise striate, glabrous; Seed 1, subglobular.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present

Malesia: Sumatra, Banka, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. .

Uses

The hard and durable yellowish to purple-brown wood is used for house constructions. The fruit is said to be edible.

Citation

Merr. 1929: Pl Elm. Born.: 58

FOXW. 1927: p. 119. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: with plate

MAST. 1901 – In: HOOK. IC. Pl: t. 2689

WINKL. 1913 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 365

BOERL. 1890 – In: Handl.: 207

SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 113

Ridl. 1922: p. 422. – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: f. 42

VALET. 1886: Crit. Overz. Olacin.: 104

HENDERS. 1928 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 238

DESCH 1954: p. 415. – In: Mal. For. Rec.: pl. 86, f. 1

WHITMORE 1973: p. 302. – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: f. 2

WYATT-SMITH & KOCHUM. 1965 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 309

FOXW. 1909 – In: Philip J. Sc.: Bot. 449

HOCHR. 1905 – In: Bull. Inst. Bot. Btzg: 44

Ridl. 1931: Kew Bull.: 35

Ridl. 1900 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 60

MEIJER 1974: Field Guide Trees W. Males: 222: f. 57

HEYNE 1927: Nutt. Pl: 593

BROWNE 1955: For. Trees Sarawak & Brunei: 281

BURGESS 1966 – In: Timbers of Sabah, Sabah For. Rec.: 420

STAUFF. 1961 – In: Vierteljahrsschr. Nat. Ges. Zurich: 414

King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 100

SLEUM. 1980 – In: Blumea: 153

Merr. 1921: En. Born.: 242

S. MOORE 1924 – In: J. Bot.: Suppl. 21