Nephelium aculeatum Leenh.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Nephelium

Characteristics

Medium-sized tree. Twigs 1 mm or more in diam., tomentellous but early glabrescent. Leaves 4-jugate; petiole 8-10 cm long, 2 mm thick, terete; axes tomentellous to subglabrous; petiolules 5-8 mm long, above narrowly deeply grooved without a rib. Leaflets ovate to elliptic, 9-19 by 4.5-5.5 cm, index 2-3.5, stiff-pergamentaceous, above glabrous, beneath puberulous on midrib and nerves, in between fairly densely minutely sericeous; no domatia; base rounded to obtuse, slightly attenuate; parallel-sided usually in the lower two thirds; apex gradually acuminate, acumen rather long and broad; midrib above grooved, nerves 0.75-1 cm apart, above hardly prominulous, no intercalated veins, veins fairly densely scalariform, prominulous at both sides, veinlets finely reticulate, above prominulous, beneath only partly visible. Inflorescences probably axillary. Flowers not observed. Fruits: 1 or 2 lobes developed, these oblique-ellipsoid, 3 by 2 by 1.75 cm, glabrous, fairly densely 2 mm long aculeate.
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A medium sized tree. The leaves have 4 leaflets. The fruit have 1 or 2 lobes. They are 3 cm long by 2 cm wide.
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Environment

A tropical plant. It grows in secondary forest.
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Secondary forest.
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Usage

Uses Fruits edible. See Jansen et al. Verheij & Coronel (eds.) Pl. Res. SE Asia (PROSEA Handb.) 2. Edible fruits and nuts 1991 348 .
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The layer around the seeds is eaten.
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Nephelium aculeatum world distribution map, present in Malaysia

Conservation status

Nephelium aculeatum threat status: Critically Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:929971-1
WFO ID wfo-0000381206
COL ID 46Y9M
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Synonyms

Nephelium aculeatum