Artocarpus gomezianus Wall. ex Trécul

Tree up to 40 m tall, evergreen. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, sparsely whitish appressedly puberulous, smooth, drying pale to dark brown. Leaves distichous; lamina coriaceous, entire, elliptic, 10-25 by 6-16 cm, apex acuminate (mostly shortly and abruptly so) to rounded, base cuneate (to subattenuate) to rounded to subcordate, slightly unequal to equal, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface sparsely minutely whitish appressedly puberulous on the midrib or subglabrous, smooth; lower surface sparsely minutely whitish appressedly puberulous on the midrib or main veins, smooth (to scabridulous); lateral veins 7-10(-15) or 10-15(-20) pairs, mostly some of them (in the upper part of the lamina) forked away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, slightly prominent; petiole (1-)1.5-3 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, sparsely minutely whitish appressedly puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, white appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 5-15 mm long, minutely white puberulous; head obovoid to subglobose, 10-15 mm diam.; perianth 2-or 3-parted, c. 0.5 mm long; stamen c. 0.6 mm long, anther c. 0.2 mm long; interfloral bracts (sub)peltate, the apical part c. 0.3 mm diam., puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 15-45 mm long, densely minutely whitish to brownish puberulous; head obovoid to subglobose; stigma simple; interfloral bracts peltate, caducous, the apical part c. 0.3 mm diam., puberulous. Infructescences subglobose, up to 8 cm diam., densely whitish to brownish puberulous (to velutinous); fruits ellipsoid, c. 1.2 cm long.

A tropical plant. It grows in broad-leaved and semi evergreen forests in Taiwan. In Timor it grows in the tropical mountain cloud forest above 1,500 m above sea level.

The fruit are cooked and eaten. They are also used for making jelly. Young fruit are salted as a pickle. The seeds are boiled and eaten.

Plants can be grown from seed.