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Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray

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

Wilkes, U.S. Expl. Exped. 1: 473 (1854).

Philippines: dila-dila.

The Philippines.

The wood is used as kekatong.

A small tree of up to 20 m tall; leaves with 2 pairs of obtuse or sometimes emarginate leaflets, the lower pair much smaller than the upper one; pod with rough surface, but not rugose, flat, 4-4.5 cm 2-2.5 cm. Cynometra inaequifolia grows in forests at low and medium altitudes. The name Cynometra inaequifolia has been commonly used for other species outside the Philippines, e.g. for Cynometra malaccensis in Peninsular Malaysia and Cynometra elmeri in Sabah.

[366]Knaap-van Meeuwen, M.S., 1970. A revision of 4 genera of the tribe Leguminosae-Caesalpinioïdeae-Cynometreae in Indo-Malesia and the Pacific. Blumea 18: 1–52.
[579]Reyes, L.J., 1938. Philippine woods. Technical Bulletin No 7. Commonwealth of the Philippines, Department of Agriculture and Commerce. Bureau of Printing, Manila. 536 pp. + 88 plates.

M.H.A. Hoffman

Hoffman, M.H.A., 1993. Cynometra inaequifolia A. Gray. 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