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Sindora supa Merr.

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

Philipp. Journ. Sc., Bot. 1, Suppl. 3: 198 (1906).

Philippines: supa (Bikol, Tagalog), baloyong (Batangas), manapo (Tayabas).

The Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro).

The timber is locally fairly important and used for high-grade furniture and interior work, musical instruments and flooring. The wood-oil is locally used as a lamp-oil, for making varnishes, paints and transparent paper, and medicinally against skin diseases.

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with a straight cylindrical bole branchless for up to 12 m, occasionally up to 180 cm in diameter; leaves with 4—6 leaflets, leaflets 2.5—9 cm 2.5—5 cm, leathery and glabrous; flowers with 6.5—10 mm long calyx lobes puberulous and with spiny outgrowths all over; pod mostly ovate, c. 5 cm long, with many spines having a swollen base. Sindora supa grows in forests at low and medium altitudes, especially on limestone ridges in regions without a distinct dry season. The timber is often streaked on longitudinal surfaces. The density is reported as about 830 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content, but it is probably usually less. See also the table on wood properties.

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M.S.M. Sosef

Sosef, M.S.M., 1993. Sindora supa Merr.. 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