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5(2): Timber trees; Minor commercial timbers

Mangifera leschenaultii Marchand

This article should be read together with the article on the genus: Mangifera (timber aspects) in the Handbook volume indicated above in this database.

Rév. Anacardiac.: 189 (1869).

Mangifera foetida Lour. var. leschenaultii (Marchand) Engl. (1883).

Indonesia: limus tipung (Sundanese, Java).

Sumatra, western Java, Borneo (Sabah, Kalimantan), Sulawesi, possibly also Peninsular Malaysia; usually cultivated.

The wood is reputed to be used. The fruit is edible; it is larger, sweeter and less fibrous than that of Mangifera foetida.

A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, with bole up to 100 cm in diameter, bark surface broadly fissured, greyish-brown; leaves oblong to broadly elliptical, 20—40 cm 10—16 cm; inflorescence pseudo-terminal, glabrous; flowers 5-merous, petals c. 6.5 mm long, outside bright red, inside dark red with a large yellow spot at base, one stamen fertile, staminodes smaller, fused at the base; fruit oblong, up to 16 cm long, pale yellowish-green when ripe with numerous brown lenticels. Mangifera leschenaultii closely resembles Mangifera foetida but differs in the usually larger leaves, flowers and fruits. It occurs in the lowland, but may be found up to 1000 m altitude. The exudate from the bark and fruit is reported as non-irritant, but this needs to be confirmed.

[328]Kostermans, A.J.G.H. & Bompard, J.-M., 1993. The mangoes. Their botany, nomenclature, horticulture and utilization. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources and Linnean Society of London. Academic Press, London. 233 pp.

R.H.M.J. Lemmens

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 1995. Mangifera leschenaultii Marchand. 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