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Campnosperma coriaceum (Jack) Hallier f. ex v. Steenis

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Campnosperma in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Fl. Mal. Bull. No 3: 74 (1948).

Campnosperma griffithii Marchand (1869), Campnosperma macrophyllum (Blume) Hook.f. (1876).

Indonesia: ambacang rawang, meranti lebar daun (Sumatra), terentang malung (Bangka). Malaysia: terentang simpoh, terentang kelintang (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Lingga, Bangka, Borneo and New Guinea.

The timber is used as terentang; it is traded in New Guinea as 'campnosperma'.

A medium-sized to large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, but usually much less, when growing in swamps often with prop roots, loop roots or pneumatophores; leaves elliptical or oblong, rarely obovate, large (up to 19 cm wide), at base acute to cuneate and without ear-like lobes, densely pubescent beneath, rarely glabrescent; flowers in fairly large, profusely branched panicles; fruit with hollow septum, black when ripe. Campnosperma coriaceum occurs gregariously in peat swamps with oligotrophic water and scattered or rare in mixed forest up to 500(-1000) m altitude.

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Ani Sulaiman

Sulaiman, A., 1993. Campnosperma coriaceum (Jack) Hallier f. ex v. Steenis. In: Soerianegara, I. and Lemmens, R.H.M.J. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(1): Timber trees; Major commercial timbers. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea