Merbau


Botanical Name
Instia palembanica Miq.
GenusInstia
FamilyLeguminosae
DistributionFrom India and Indochina to New Guinea, but apparently absent from Java.
Bole CharacteristicsTree up to 45 m (rarely more) high and 4 m (once recorded) in diam.; buttresses up to 7 m high, extending outwards 6 m, 30 cm thick. Bole strongly buttresses, greeny-grey, dippled, rusty red colored at dippled areas. Under-bark green. Inner bark red-brown to white, fibrous, dark oil spots soon appearing on exposure to air.
Herbarium CharacteristicsLeaves spirally arranged, compound, leaflets opposite, without terminal leaflets. Leaves 4-jugate, rarely associated with some 2-, 3-, or 5-jugate; petiole and rachis (3.5-)9.5-17.5(-26) cm, both puberulous, glabrescent. Leaflets ovate, elliptic, sometimes broad-ovate or -elliptic, or suborbicular, rarely obovate or lanceolate, (3-)10-13.5(-18.5) by (3-)5-7.5(-10.5) cm; apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes slightly notched, (shortly) acuminate; base obtuse, rounded, cuneate, rarely slightly truncate or subcordate, often somewhat asymmetric; nerves 6-10 per side; petiole 2-5 mm.
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