Calophyllum membranaceum Gardner & Champ.

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Calophyllaceae > Calophyllum

Characteristics

Shrubs to small trees, 1-5 m tall. Young shoots tetragonous, narrowly winged. Petiole 6-10 mm; leaf blade lucid and opaque-brown on both surfaces when dry, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6-12 × 1.5-3.5 cm, thinly leathery, midvein raised on both surfaces, base cuneate, margin revolute, apex acute, acuminate, or caudate-acuminate. Cyme axillary and terminating short axillary shoots, (1-)3(-5)-flowered, 2.5-3 cm, puberulous. Pedicels 5-8 mm, glabrous. Flowers reddish white. Sepals 4; outer 2: suborbicular, ca. 4 mm; inner 2: obovate, ca. 8 mm. Petals 4, obovate, equal in size, ca. 8 mm. Ovary ovoid; stigma subulate. Mature fruit yellow, ovoid-oblong, 1.2-2 cm, apiculate. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Aug-Oct(-Dec).
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 2.5 - 4.5
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Locally common in lowland or (usually) colline forest, sometimes in rocky places; at elevations from 50-915 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Distribution

Calophyllum membranaceum world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:427222-1
WFO ID wfo-0000581228
COL ID PZJH
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Calophyllum bonii Calophyllum membranaceum Calophyllum spectabile Calophyllum tonkinense