Paranephelium xestophyllum

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Paranephelium xestophyllum

Description

(Shrub to) tree up to 20(-40) m high, dbh 10-45 (-75) cm, often with stiltroots up to 60 cm, or with buttresses up to 70 cm high. Leaves 1-6-jugate, ± densely minutely hairy on the axes; Inflorescences usually ramiflorous (to axillary to terminal), delicate and clustered, 2-30 cm long, laxly to densely velutinous and hispid. Flowers fragrant, white to greenish white to yellowish. Sepals (4 or) 5 (or 6), connate at base to free, equal to very unequal, deltate or narrowly triangular to broadly ovate (to linear), acute to acuminate, (2-tipped), 0.8-2 by 0.5-1.8 mm. Petals (4 or) 5(-7), variably shaped, 1-2.5 by 0.7-2.7 mm, outside glabrous (to woolly); Stamens 5-8 (or 9); Fruits up to 7 cm in diam., 2- or 3-lobed or globular, brown, yellow, or grey, smooth or laxly to densely ± irregularly gibbose, or warty to spiny, glabrous.

Distribution

Annam present, Asia-Temperate: China South-Central (Yunnan present), Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Laos (Laos present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present, Mindanao present
China (Yunnan), Burma, Thailand, Indo-China (Laos and Annam), and Malesia: Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and Philippines (Mindanao).

Uses

Good firewood but rarely used for timber. From the seeds lamp oil can be pressed, and they are edible when baked or boiled.

Citation

Davids 1984: p. 437. – In: Blumea: f. 1, 3b-i
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1324
Radlk. 1922 – In: Fedde, Rep. 19: 344
Yap 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 457
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1326
Brandis 1906: Indian Trees: 187
Teijsm. & Binn. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzen. 98: 1325
Jacobs 1962 – In: Reinwardtia: 141
Pierre 1895: Fl. Cochinchine: t. 327a
Radlk. 1879: Sapind. Holl.-Ind.: 29, 79, 80
Miq. 1923 – In: Merr Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 514
Radlk. 1879: Sapind. Holl.-Ind.: 80
Koord.-Schum. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1324
Radlk. 1932 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 936
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 982
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 509