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5(2): Timber trees; Minor commercial timbers

Mangifera oblongifolia Hook.f.

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

Fl. Brit. India 2: 16 (1876).

Malaysia: sepam, membachang hutan, machang hutan (Peninsular). Thailand: mamuang-chingrit.

Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo (Sabah, East Kalimantan).

The wood is used as machang, e.g. for construction under cover.

A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, with bole up to 70 cm in diameter, bark surface broadly to narrowly fissured, pale brown and white-fawn in patches; leaves oblong to elliptical-oblong, 11—39 cm 3—15 cm; inflorescence pseudo-terminal, lax and broadly pyramidal, apically sparingly pubescent; flowers 5-merous, petals 3—3.5 mm long, yellowish or reddish, with 3—5 yellow ridges inside confluent at the base, disk flat, cushion-like, obscurely lobed, one stamen fertile, staminodes smaller, filaments connate at base; fruit elongated to subglobose, c. 10 cm long, green or yellowish-green when ripe. Mangifera oblongifolia occurs in lowland evergreen rain forest up to 700 m altitude. The heartwood is pale pinkish-brown to pale brick-red; the density is 720—815 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

[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.
[598]Stephens, M., 1955. The timber machang (M. foetida). Malaysian Forester 18(4): 205–207.

R.H.M.J. Lemmens

Lemmens, R.H.M.J., 1995. Mangifera oblongifolia Hook.f.. 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