Canarium megacarpum Leenh.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Burseraceae > Canarium

Characteristics

Tree 35 m by 40 cm. Branchlets 1.25 cm thick, glabrescent; pith with many scattered small vascular strands. Stipules caducous, inserted on the base of the petiole, reniformous, 5 by 8 mm, densely tomentose, margin denticulate. Leaves 4-5-jugate. Leaflets ovate to elliptic-oblong, 15-17½(-19) by 5-7(-8.5) cm, subcoriaceous, shortly fulvous-tomentose on midrib above and on all nerves beneath; base rounded to truncate; margin entire; apex rather abruptly shortly acute-acuminate; nerves 17-22 pairs (angle 55°), straight to faintly curved, only in the apical part distinctly arching. Inflorescences, flowers and infructescences unknown. Fruits ovoid, triangular in cross-section, 8 by 5 cm, glabrous; pericarp 0.5 cm thick, fibrous; pyrene sharply 3-winged, lids concave, scaberu-lous, 3-3.5 mm thick. Seeds 2; sterile cell moderately reduced.
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Mature height (meter) 35.0
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Primary forest. Fr.--04.
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Distribution

Canarium megacarpum world distribution map, present in Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:127412-1
WFO ID wfo-0000583616
COL ID QJM8
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Synonyms

Canarium megacarpum