Xylocarpus moluccensis M.Roem.

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Species

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Meliaceae > Xylocarpus

Characteristics

Tree usually 6–18 m tall with usually solitary bole to 70 cm diam., small buttresses and many erect, pointed pneumatophores; bark rough with longitudinal fissures, falling in oblong flakes, whitish to yellow-brown mottled. Leaf rachis and petiole to 10 cm long, sometimes with persistent apical spike to 1 mm long. Leaflets usually 2 or 3 pairs, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, usually 4–10 cm long, 2.5–6.5 cm wide, cuneate and ±asymmetric at base, acute to obtuse at apex; venation prominent only when dried; petiolules usually  2–5 mm long. Thyrses usually 3–8 cm long, often produced with the new leaves, ±lax; main axis usually distinct; lateral branches to 4 cm long; bracts and bracteoles ±persistent. Pseudopedicels 3–8 mm long, not conspicuously swollen beneath calyx lobes. Calyx lobes  1–1.7 mm long. Petals oblong to obovate, 3.5–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, creamy white. Staminal tube 2–3 mm diam.; marginal lobes acute to apiculate or bifid to retuse. Capsule flattened-globose, 6–11 cm diam. Seeds 5–10, 4–6.5 cm long; first leaves simple.
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Tree 6–18(–30, Watson) m, with small buttresses and many pointed pneumato-phores; bole usually solitary, to 70(–210, Watson) cm diam. Bark rough with longi-tudinal fissures, falling as oblong flakes. Leaf rachis and petiole to 10 cm, sometimes with persistent apical spike to 1 mm. Leaflets in (1) 2 or 3 (4) pairs, (5–)7–10(–17) by (2.5–)4–6.5(–7) cm, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate to oblanceolate, base cuneate, ± asym-metric, apex acute to obtuse, venation prominent on both surfaces in sicco; petiolule (0–) 2–5 mm, sometimes swollen. Thyrses 3–8(–13) cm long, often produced with the new leaves, ± lax, main axis clear; lateral branches to 4 cm; bracts and bracteoles  0.5 mm, ± persistent; pedicels 3–8 mm, not conspicuously swollen near calyx. Calyx lobes 1–1.7 mm long. Petals 3.5–4 by 2–3 mm, oblong to obovate, creamy white. Staminal tube 2–3 mm diam., lobes acute to apiculate or bifid to retuse. Fruit 6–11 cm diam., flattened-globose. Seeds 5–10, 4–6.5 cm long. First leaves simple.
Tree 3–15 m. tall; bark rough.. Ribbon-like pneumatophores absent.. Leaves up to 16 cm. long, glabrous drying yellowish green; leaflets 2–6, subcoriaceous, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, up to 12 × 6 cm., tapering from near the asymmetric obtuse or subtruncate base to the subacuminate apex.. Inflorescence 5–15 cm. long, when well developed a lax raceme of lax cymes.. Calyx ± 0.2 cm. long, glabrous.. Petals up to 0.7 cm. long, glabrous.. Staminal tube up to 0.55 cm. long, glabrous.. Fruit up to 8 cm. in diameter, otherwise similar to X. granatum.. Seeds 3.5–7.5 cm. long.. Fig 21/6.
Leaves paripinnate, drying yellow-green, petiole and rhachis up to 16 cm. long, glabrous; leaflets up to 12 × 6 cm., opposite, 2–3 (4)-jugate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, tapering from near the base to a subacuminate apex, base variable, asymmetric, glabrous, subcoriaceous, venation closer and less prominent than in X. granatum.
Medium-sized much-branched spreading semi-evergreen tree up to 13 m. tall (much taller elsewhere), sometimes flowering as a shrub; bark rough like an Ulmus; ribbon-like buttresses absent.
A small tree. It grows 5-18 m tall. It can be 30 m tall and have a trunk 70 cm across. The flowers are creamy-white. The fruit are round and 11 cm across.
Flowers white or greenish-white in lax racemes or panicles of 3–7-flowered cymes; peduncle plus rhachis 5–14 cm. long; bracts minute, usually caducous.
Calyx c. 2 mm. long, glabrous, lobed to beyond the middle, the lobes of irregular outline, often apiculate.
Ovary less than 1 mm. in diam., style 1 mm. long; disk situated beneath ovary.
Fruit up to 8 cm. in diam., obscurely 4-sulcate.
Staminal tube 4–5·5 mm. long, glabrous.
Petals up to 7 × 4 mm., glabrous.
Seeds 3·6–7 cm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support aquatic free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
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Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 8.0 - 14.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Sandy and rocky beaches, in coastal shrub just above the high-water mark, but it has also been reported from typically mangrove environments.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows on sandy and rocky beaches and in mangroves.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The peel of the fruit is eaten in soups.
Uses dye environmental use food fuel material medicinal oil poison social use timber wood
Edible fruits
Therapeutic use Abdominal pain (bark), Cholera (bark), Diarrhea (bark), Fever (bark), Wounds and injuries (bark), Abdomen (unspecified), Apertif (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
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Optimum temperature (C°) 19 - 35
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Images

Xylocarpus moluccensis unspecified picture

Distribution

Xylocarpus moluccensis world distribution map, present in American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, Guam, Indonesia, India, Kenya, Cambodia, Madagascar, Myanmar, Northern Mariana Islands, Mozambique, Mayotte, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Somalia, Thailand, Tonga, Tanzania, United Republic of, United States of America, Viet Nam, and Samoa

Conservation status

Xylocarpus moluccensis threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:579974-1
WFO ID wfo-0000428174
COL ID 5CKHD
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 807576
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Synonyms

Carapa moluccensis Xylocarpus moluccensis Monosoma littorata Xylocarpus mekongensis Xylocarpus parvifolius Xylocarpus australasicus Carapa indica Guarea oblongifolia Carapa borneensis Carapa mekongensis Granatum moluccense