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Artocarpus fretessii Teijsm. & Binnend.

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

Hassk., Abh. Naturf. Ges. Halle 9: 189 (1866).

Artocarpus dasyphyllus Miq. (1867), Artocarpus paloensis Elmer (1908), Artocarpus leytensis Elmer (1909).

Indonesia: kelembi, maumbi (Sulawesi), cempedak utan (Ambon). Philippines: bayuko (Bikol).

Eastern Borneo, the Philippines, Sulawesi, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya.

The wood is locally used as terap or keledang, e.g. for bridges and light construction. The fresh bark is reported to have weak contracting properties. The latex tastes like coconut milk.

A fairly large evergreen tree up to 40 m tall, bole sometimes with small buttresses; leaves obovate-oblong to elliptical, base broadly cuneate to shallowly cordate, veins pubescent above, moderately to sparsely pubescent below, with 9—13 pairs of secondary veins, stipules non-amplexicaul; male head subglobose or obovoid, 3—7 mm across, on a 3—7 mm long peduncle; styles in female head simple; syncarp with 1 to several lobes, up to 4 cm across, papillate between the lobes, smooth elsewhere, puberulent. Artocarpus fretessii is locally common in forest up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 640 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

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T. Djarwaningsih

Djarwaningsih, T., 1995. Artocarpus fretessii Teijsm. & Binnend.. In: Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerianegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (Editors): Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(2): Timber trees; Minor commercial timbers. PROSEA Foundation, Bogor, Indonesia. Database record: prota4u.org/prosea