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Dracontomelon costatum Blume

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

Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1: 232 (1850).

Brunei: lengkubong. Indonesia: senlang (Sumatra), landur (Bassap Dayak, Kalimantan), senkuang (Malay, Samarinda).

Sumatra and Borneo (not recorded from Sarawak).

The wood is reputed to be used as dao.

A medium-sized tree up to 30(—35) m tall, bole branchless for up to 15 m and up to 80 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 5 m high and 2 m wide, bark surface smooth, yellowish-brown, twigs with ovate lenticels; leaf rachis 10—35 cm long, leaflets 9—15, opposite, 6—22 cm 3.5—9.5 cm, glabrous, without domatia; flowers 4—5 mm long, in panicles of up to 35(—70) cm long, disk glabrous; fruit ovoid, seemingly 1-celled due to abortion. Dracontomelon costatum is found in primary forest below 150 m altitude, on sand or limestone, in marshy areas and on river terraces. The density of the wood is 460—710 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

[77]Burgess, P.F., 1966. Timbers of Sabah. Sabah Forest Records No 6. Forest Department, Sabah, Sandakan. xviii + 501 pp.
[162]Flora Malesiana (various editors), 1950–. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London.
[711]Wilkinson, H.P., 1968. Dracontomelon costatum Blume (Anacardiaceae), an augmented description. Journal of Natural History 1968(2): 39–46.

B. Louman

Louman, B., 1995. Dracontomelon costatum Blume. 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