Kibatalia arborea
Family
Apocynaceae
Synonyms
Hasseltia arborea Blume, Kickxia arborea (Blume) Blume, Tabernaemontana ovalis Miq.
Vernacular Names
| Malaysia | Jelutong beruang, tamadak (Peninsular). |
| Indonesia | Lingorumbolia (Sulawesi, Malibi). |
| Thailand | Ba du bu wae (Peninsular). |
Geographical Distributions
Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Borneo (Sarawak, Sabah) and the Philippines (Palawan).
Description
It is a big tree up to 45(-65) m tall.
The leaves are elliptical to obovate, 10-26(-35) cm x (5-)8-13 cm, with 15-60 colleters in the leaf axils.
The inflorescence is 1-12-flowered, cymose cluster and sepals shortly united, with 70-100 colleters inside. The petal is variable with the lobes 0.2-2.2 times as long as the tube.
The fruit consists of 2 parallel-divergent separate parts of the fruit that is very narrowly ellipsoid to very narrowly club-shaped sized between 25-35 cm x 1-2.5 cm.
Ecology / Cultivation
K. arborea is found in lowland forest, often on stream banks and steep slopes up to 500 m altitude.
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References
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Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 12(2). 1998, Unesco.
