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Palaquium ridleyi

Synonyms: Palaquium ledermannii; Palaquium poilanei

Wikipedia Abstract

Palaquium ridleyi is a tree in the Sapotaceae family. It grows up to 30 metres (100 ft) tall. The bark is brownish grey. Inflorescences bear up to 11 flowers. The fruits are obovoid, up to 1.5 cm (1 in) long. The tree is named for the English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley. Habitat is peat swamp and kerangas forests. The timber is used for making shingles in Sumatra. P. ridleyi is found from Vietnam to New Guinea.
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Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Specific Gravity [2]  0.833

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♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0