Sandoricum borneense

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Description

Tree 7– m; bole to 15 m, 20–40(–60) cm diam., unbuttressed. Bark smooth, pale brown, with small lenticels; inner bark light brown or pinkish; sapwood white. Leaves 22–38 cm long, red when young; petiole 4–10 cm, terete to somewhat flattened adaxially near base. Petals 5,6–8 mm long, linear-oblong, glabrous, creamy green to pinkish, apices acute. Staminal tube creamy green to pinkish, glabrous and with c. 20 ribs without, vil- lous within, margin 10-lobed, each lobe ± bifid; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, in two ranks, alternating with the lobes, apiculate, weakly exserted. Ovary and style glabrous; stigmatic lobes c. 1 mm long. Seeds c. 14 by 9 mm (Vale- ton, l.c.); cotyledons pink within.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo (Sarawak present), northern Kalimantan present, southern Sabah present

Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak, southern Sabah, northern Kalimantan)

Uses

The sparsely produced fruits are edible and the timber is good for ‘sapé’- making.

Citation

Merr. 1921 – In: J. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. p 319

T.D.Penn. 1975: p. 506. – In: Blumea. t. 14e

Meijer 1967 – In: Bot. News Bull. Sabah. p 81

Mabb. 1985 – In: Blumea. 150.

Valeton 1897 – In: Ic. Bogor. t. 10

C.DC. 1878 – In: DC, Monogr. Phan. 1. p 463

Schwartz 1931 – In: Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamb. p 235

Ashton 1978: UNESCO, Trop. For. Ecosyst. p 92