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Mangifera gedebe Miq.

ANACARDIACEAE

Indonesia: kedepir (Java), gedepir (Sumatra), kepi (Kalimantan).

Western Java, Sumatra and eastern Borneo. Sometimes cultivated.

The fruits are only edible when unripe and are very sour; when ripe, the pulp is too scanty and too hard.

Tree, up to 30 m tall. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 5—23 cm x 2—6 cm, subcoriaceous. Flowers white, stamens 5, only 1 fertile. Fruit an obliquely subrotund drupe, 8—9 cm in diameter, flesh thin, fibrous. Seed labyrinthine, very irregularly lobed or folded. On river banks in lowland or swamp forests, flowering in June—September, fruiting in August—November. The species is rare and urgently requires conservation in Eastern Borneo.

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P.C.M. Jansen, J. Jukema, L.P.A. Oyen, T.G. van Lingen

Jansen, P.C.M., Jukema, J., Oyen, L.P.A. & van Lingen, T.G., 1991. Mangifera gedebe Miq.. In: Verheij, E.W.M. and Coronel, R.E. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 2: Edible fruits and nuts. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea