Sandoricum beccarianum
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Description
Tree to 35 m with bole to 25 m and 70 cm diam.
Bark smooth with minute cracks to deeply fissured; inner bark red-brown, to 10 mm thick; sapwood whitish to pale brown; heartwood pink to red-brown.
Leaves 11–25 cm long; petiole 3–7 cm, weakly swollen and flattened adaxially at base.
Petals (4) 5, 6–7 by 2.5 mm, oblanceolate, yellow-green to white, glabrous.
Staminal tube fleshy, deeply (16- or) 20-ribbed, cream, ± pilose within, margin with (8) 10 emargi- nate lobes; anthers (8) 10, 1 mm long, ovate, apiculate, in one rank, inserted opposite lobes, very weakly exserted.
Ovary and style glabrous; stigmatic lobes c. 1 mm long.
Seeds 2, c. 2 cm long, 1 cm diam.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Thailand (Thailand present), coastal regions of Sumatra present
Thailand and Malesia:coastal regions of Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Borneo.
Uses
The fruit is edible and also eaten by Siamang (Chivers). The timber is yel- lowish-red and durable, being used as planks in ship- and house-building in Sumatra. Burkill (l.c.) reports that it reached the Singapore sawyers.
Citation
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins. p 385
Mabb. 1985 – In: Blumea. p 151
Mabb. 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya. 249.
C.DC. 1878 – In: DC, Monogr. Phan. 1. p 461
Becc. 1902: For. Born. p 574
Burkill 1935: Dict. Econ. Prod. Malay Penins. p 1946
King 1895 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng. p 22
Meijer 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. Sabah. p 81
K. Heyne 1950: Nutt. Pl. Indon., ed. 3. p 890
Corner 1978 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing. 77, 86, 89.
Anderson 1963 – In: Gard. Bull. Sing. p 165
Merr. 1921 – In: J., Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. p 319