Campnosperma coriaceum

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Campnosperma coriaceum

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Description

Tree(let) up to 40 m high and 90 cm Ø, but usually smaller; Bark grey, ochre, brown, or light red to almost (purplish) black, (smooth or) vertically cracked or closely to distantly fissured, rarely scaly. Leaves elliptic, elliptic-oblong, rarely obovate-oblong, 5½-40 by 2½-19cm; Flowers greenish yellow or yellow. Petals broadly ovate or ovate, c. 1¾ by 1-1½ mm. Stamens 1-1½ mm; Panicles up to 35 cm long, profusely branched, branches up to 10 cm, sometimes with rather simple, scant, short branches and seemingly racemose; Ovary subglobose, c. ¾ mm Ø.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi); Sumatera (Sumatera present), Banka present, Lingga present
Malesia: widely distributed in Sumatra, Lingga, Banka, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and New Guinea; not yet found in Celebes and the Moluccas.

Uses

ROBBINS & PULLEN l.c. recorded tigaso-oil for this species (see also sub C. brevipetiolatum) which is "traded extensively throughout the Southern Highlands (of Papua New Guinea) to the north as a body oil for 'sing-sing' decoration". It is possible, however, that this record relates to either C. brevipetiolatum or C. montanum.

Notes

Specimens of the present species can be easily recognized even in sterile condition by the leaves having a distinct (long) petiole, many pairs of patent and straight nerves, and being densely hairy beneath even at old age, only rarely becoming finally glabrescent.

Citation

King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 494
MEUER 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. F. D. Sandakan: 21
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 320
SMYTHIES 1965: Common Sarawak Trees: 3
Hook.f. 1940: Ways. Trees: 104
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 534
ROBBINS & PULLEN 1965 – In: Land Res. Ser. CSIRO: 108
LAUT. 1920 – In: Bot. Jahrb.: 359
KANEH. & HATUS. 1942 – In: Bot. Mag. Tokyo: 167
Engl. 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 316
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 637
KOCHUM. 1964 – In: Mal. For. Rec.: 223
DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 5
Hook.f. 1876 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 41
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 254
Corner 1939 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 254
MERR. & PERRY 1941 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 534