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Pouteria malaccensis (C.B. Clarke) Baehni

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

Candollea 9: 203 (1942).

Sideroxylon malaccense C.B. Clarke (1882), Lucuma malaccensis (C.B. Clarke) Dubard (1912), Xantolis malaccensis (C.B. Clarke) Baehni (1965).

Malaysia: nyatoh nangka kuning, nangka-nangka (Peninsular).

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, the Riau Archipelago, Lingga, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya.

The timber is used as nyatoh.

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 90 cm in diameter, buttressed; leaves evenly distributed or loosely clustered, usually broadly obovate, with distinct transverse tertiary venation, initially densely hairy beneath, but glabrescent; flowers in 6—22-flowered clusters in axils of leaves, borne on stout 2—4 mm long pedicels, white to pale yellow or whitish-green; fruit subglobose, 2—4 cm long, rusty scurfy but becoming glabrous, yellowish-green or brownish. Pouteria malaccensis is a fairly common species, but occurs scattered in lowland primary forest, rarely up to 1300 m altitude. It is found in seasonal swamps as well as on ridges. In Peninsular Malaysia it is probably one of the major nyatoh-producing trees. The wood is creamy white or pale yellow and heavy for nyatoh, with a density of 790—870 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. It has been found very suitable for plywood.

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R.H.M.J. Lemmens

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 1993. Pouteria malaccensis (C.B. Clarke) Baehni. 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