Mangifera macrocarpa
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Description
Tree up to 37 m high and 80 cm Ø.
Bark pink, rather smooth, or fissured with strips 2-3 cm wide.
Leaves chartaceous, linear, linear-lanceolate, rarely spathulate, (9-)15-60 by (1½45-)3½-5 cm;
Petals 5, lanceolate, 8 by 2¾ mm;
Stamens 5,1 fertile, 2½ mm;
Panicles terminal, pyramidal, up to 20 cm long, glabrous;
Seed not labyrinthine.
Distribution
Anambas Is present, Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Kalimantan present, Sabah present); Cambodia (Cambodia present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present), East Coast present, Hort. Bog cultivated, Kelan-tan present, Lampongs present, Malacca present, Nunukan I present, Pahang present, Palembang present, Peninsula present, Trengganu present, W. Java present
Lower Thailand (Peninsula), Cambodia (cf. PIERRE), and Malesia: Sumatra (East Coast, Palembang, Lampongs), Malay Peninsula (Kelan-tan, Trengganu, Pahang, Malacca), W. Java, Borneo and neighbouring islands (Sabah, Kalimantan, Anambas Is., Nunukan I.).
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. sub VI-B-8.
Cultivated in Hort. Bog. sub VI-B-8.
Notes
M. macrocarpa can be easily recognized by its chartaceous, linear, linear-lanceolate, rarely spathulate leaves, with a leaf index larger than (7-) 10. All the (23) collections which I have examined are in sterile state except two.
The fruit was described by BLUME (l.c.) as having the size of a child's head. HOOKER f (l.c.) quoting from MAINGAY, stated in the description of M. fragrans that the drupe is "obliquely broadly oblong-globose", and ENGLER (l.c.), based on MAINGAY'S drawing in Kew, recorded its size as 10 cm Ø. Although its shape and size have been mentioned often in literature and sometimes on specimens, so far I have seen only small, young, detached immature fruits (574 by 2¾ cm) on the collection SAN 31997a.
KOSTERMANS, in a letter to VAN STEENIS (10-3-1965), stated that trees of this species are sporadic in East Borneo and that in ten years he did not see any of them in flower or fruit, and that the cultivated tree in Bogor has never flowered (cf. also K. & V. l.c.).
PIERRE (l.c.) recorded this species for Cambodia; however, TARDIEU-BLOT () stated that no specimen of it could be found in the Herbarium at Paris.
The fruit was described by BLUME (l.c.) as having the size of a child's head. HOOKER f (l.c.) quoting from MAINGAY, stated in the description of M. fragrans that the drupe is "obliquely broadly oblong-globose", and ENGLER (l.c.), based on MAINGAY'S drawing in Kew, recorded its size as 10 cm Ø. Although its shape and size have been mentioned often in literature and sometimes on specimens, so far I have seen only small, young, detached immature fruits (574 by 2¾ cm) on the collection SAN 31997a.
KOSTERMANS, in a letter to VAN STEENIS (10-3-1965), stated that trees of this species are sporadic in East Borneo and that in ten years he did not see any of them in flower or fruit, and that the cultivated tree in Bogor has never flowered (cf. also K. & V. l.c.).
PIERRE (l.c.) recorded this species for Cambodia; however, TARDIEU-BLOT () stated that no specimen of it could be found in the Herbarium at Paris.
Citation
DING HOU 1978 – In: Blumea: 26
Ridl. 1922 – In: Fl. Mai. Pen.: 524
MUKHERJI 1949 – In: Lloydia: 119
WALP. 1842 – In: Rep.: 555
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 634
Bl. 1850 – In: Mus. Bot.: 201
BACK. & BAKH.F. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 148
BACK. 1911: Schoolfl.: 277
LECOMTE 1908 – In: Fl. Gén. I.-C.: 16
ENGL 1883 – In: DC., Mon. Phan. 4: 210
PIERRE 1897: Fl. For. Coch.: t. 364D
King 1896 – In: J. As. Soc. Beng.: 475
K. & V. 1896 – In: Bijdr.: 87