Nephelium juglandifolium Blume

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Nephelium

Characteristics

Tree, up to 30 m high, dbh up to 90 cm. Twigs 4-12.5 mm in diam., variably hairy, mostly early glabrescent. Leaves (1-)3-7-jugate; petiole 6-14 cm long, 2-4 mm thick, terete to semiterete or triangular in cross section; axes variably hairy, glabrescent; petiolules 4-10 mm long, above flat to slightly grooved, without or with a faint median rib. Leaflets (narrowly) elliptic, rarely ovate, 7.5-32 by 2.5-9.5 cm, index 3(-5), thin-coriaceous to thin-pergamentaceous, glabrous or beneath sparsely short-hairy; domatia rare; base rounded, obtuse, or acute; sides slightly curved or straight and parallel; apex obtuse to rounded, mostly not, sometimes shortly, broadly, and obtusely acuminate; midrib above prominulous to slightly sunken, nerves 0.75-2.25 cm apart, above prominulous to slightly grooved, intercalated veins none or few; veins and veinlets distinctly different, the former scalariform, reticulation coarse, above prominent, beneath inconspicuous. Inflorescences pseudoterminal. Sepals slightly or up to c. 35% connate, 1.5-2 mm long. Petals none. Disc hairy. Stamens 7 or 8. Ovary 2-celled. Fruits slightly flattened ellipsoid, 3.5-5 by 2.5 by 2 cm, glabrous, coarsely warty, the warts ± arranged into longitudinal rows, ± obtuse triangular, usually flattened, up to 4 mm high; wall coriaceous, c. 1 mm thick.
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Mature height (meter) 22.0
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Environment

Rain forest and open jungle; mostly at low elevations, ascending to 650 metres.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses Sarcotesta around the seed edible. See Jansen et al. Verheij & Coronel (eds.) Plant Res. SE Asia (PROSE A Handb.) 2, Edible fruits and nuts 1991 348 .
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Edible fruits
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Can be grown by seedlings.
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Distribution

Nephelium juglandifolium world distribution map, present in Indonesia and Iceland

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:783832-1
WFO ID wfo-0000381270
COL ID 46YB3
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Synonyms

Nephelium juglandifolium Nephelium tuberculatum