Nephelium reticulatum Radlk.

Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae > Nephelium

Characteristics

Tree, up to 25 m high, dbh up to 70 cm, sometimes with small buttresses. Twigs 4-5 mm in diam., the youngest parts puberulous, for the rest glabrous. Leaves 4(-7)-jugate; petiole 6-18.5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm thick, terete to slightly hollowed above; axes thinly puberulous, glabrescent; petiolules 2-10 mm long, narrowly and deeply to broadly and shallow-ly grooved, lacking or with 3 ribs. Leaflets (narrowly) elliptic (to ovate) 6.5-20 by 2.5-5.5 cm, index 2-4, pergamentaceous, glabrous or sometimes beneath sparsely puberulous on the midrib and with few scattered, appressed, minute hairs all over the surface; domatia absent; base rounded to acute, attenuate; sides slightly curved; apex abruptly to tapering acuminate, acumen short to fairly long, cuneate, acute; midrib above a slightly sunken fine rib, nerves 0.75-1.25(-l.5) cm apart, above prominulous, intercalated veins variably developed, veins and veinlets conspicuously moderately coarsely to minutely reticulate, prominulous on both sides. Inflorescences terminal and axillary. Flowers often male and female in the same inflorescence. Sepals nearly free or up to c. 40% connate, 1-1.2 mm long. Petals 5-0, up to 1.8 mm long, claw 1 mm, blade 1.5 mm wide, outside sparsely, inside densely hairy but for the upper half of the blade. Disc glabrous. Stamens 5-8. Ovary 2-celled. Fruits ellipsoid, 4 by 2.5 cm, appendages dense, narrowly strap-shaped, thin-puberulous, gla-brescent, bulbous to triangular at the base, curved, up to c. 1 cm long; wall coriaceous, c. 1 mm thick.
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A tree. It grows to 25 m high. The trunk is 70 cm across. It can have buttresses up to 75 cm high. The leaves do not have hairs. The tertiary veins are raised and netlike. The fruit have hairy attachments. The fruit is an oval capsule 4 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. It is red.
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Mature width (meter) 0.7
Mature height (meter) 25.0
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Primary forest on flat or hilly country, growing on sandy soils; at elevations up to 400 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows on sandy soils and up to 400 m above sea level.
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Usage

Uses Apparently locally cultivated for the fruits. 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 fleshy layer around the seed is eaten.
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Edible fruits
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Plants can be grown from seeds.
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Conservation status

Nephelium reticulatum threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:783872-1
WFO ID wfo-0000381129
COL ID 46YCB
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Synonyms

Nephelium reticulatum