Santiria grandiflora
Kalkman
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The New York Botanical Garden
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Description
A medium sized tree. It grows 30 m tall. The bark is grey brown and scaly. The leaves have 4-6 pairs of leaflets. They have powdery hairs underneath. They are 16-29 cm long by 5-9 cm wide. The leaf stalk has a deep groove above. The flowering stalks are 9-18 cm long. The fruit are narrowly oval but unequal. They are yellowish green but turn pink as they ripen. They are 1.5-1.9 cm long by 1.1-1.3 cm wide. The surface in slightly wrinkled.
Edible Uses
The fruit are edible.
Distribution
A tropical plant. It grows in mixed forests up to 200 m above sea level. It grows in Borneo. It can be on sandy soils and alluvial soils.
Where It Grows
Asia, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, SE Asia,
Notes
An unresolved name in The Plant List.
Also Known As
Kedongdong, Keromoh, Seeladah
References (4)
- JSTOR Global Plants edible
- Leenhouts, P.W., 1955, Burseraceae in Flora Malesiana Vol 5 p 232
- Slik, F., www.asianplant.net
- Soepadmo, E. and Wong, K. M., 1995, Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak. Forestry Malaysia. Volume One. p 87
