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Dialium modestum (v. Steenis) Stey.

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

Reinwardtia 2: 355 (1953).

Uittienia modesta v. Steenis (1948).

Indonesia: nyamut, keranji, bumbun merah (Kalimantan).

Borneo.

The timber is used as keranji.

A small to medium-sized tree of up to 30 m tall, bole branchless for up to 18 m and up to 80 cm in diameter; leaves unifoliolate, leaflet 7-20 cm 3.5-7.5 cm, glabrous; sepals 5, petals 5, stamens 5; fruit not brittle but with a hard pericarp, globose, 4-6 cm in diameter. Dialium modestum is a fairly common species of primary, non-inundated forests up to 600 m altitude. This species might well form a genus separate from Dialium; it should then be called Uittienia modesta v. Steenis.

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J.P. Rojo

Rojo, J.P., 1993. Dialium modestum (v. Steenis) Stey.. 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