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5(1): Timber trees; Major commercial timbers

Gmelina arborea Roxb.

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

Hort. bengal.: 46 (1814).

Yemane (trade name).

Native from Pakistan south to Sri Lanka and east to Burma and extensively planted in South-East Asia, tropical Africa and Brazil.

The wood is used mainly for light construction and for pulping. Several parts of the plant are used medicinally. Leaves are good cattle fodder.

A medium-sized tree of up to 30(-40) m tall, bole with average diameter of 50 cm but sometimes reaching 140 cm; leaves usually more or less heart-shaped, 10-25 cm 5-18 cm, merely glabrous or velvety beneath; corolla bright yellow, ovary glabrous. For more information see genus treatment and the table on wood properties.

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M.S.M. Sosef

Sosef, M.S.M., 1993. Gmelina arborea Roxb.. 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