Streblus asper L.

  • Filed As

    Moraceae
    Streblus asper L.

  • Collector(s)

    A. D. E. Elmer 12653, Feb 1911

  • Location

    Philippines. Palawan. Brooks point (Addison peak), Island of Palawan.

  • Habitat

    moist fertile soil.

  • Description

    Stem 10 inches thick, wadded, crooked, branched from below the middle, 20 feet high or higher: branches widely spreading. laxly rebranched: wood strongly ringed, moderately hard, dingy white, odor-less and tasteless: bark yellowish and with gray blotches, smooth except the coarse lenticels: twigs numerous brown: leaves mostly horizontal, recurved, rough and paler green beneath, chartaceous: pedicals green, ascending, gradually thickened towards the ends: the buds or rather the young fruits solidly enclosed by the green bracts: stigmatic arms yellowish: ripe fruit shining, pale yellow nearly from the side view: the subtending bracts rotately spreading, whitish on the inner side. otherwise green: fruit juicy. sweet, usually with a single stone-like globose seed: "Lampataki:" Sapwood or bark with a pale whitish sap.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 4380205

    Occurrence ID: f5f0236a-732f-473d-85fe-0c6bf5c89f79

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Rosales

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • All Determinations

    Streblus asper L.

  • Region

    Asia

  • Country

    Philippines

  • State/Province

    Palawan

  • Locality

    Brooks point (Addison peak), Island of Palawan

  • Elevation

    Alt. 6 m. (20 ft.)

  • Location Notes

    [Pacifica]

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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
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BROOKS POINT (ADDISON	PROVINCE OF PALAWAN
ISLAND OF PALAWATOCEBRUARY, 1911
12653* Streblus asper Zont* !£raes in moiBt fertile
»oil/ of woods at 80 feet altitude; stem 10 inches thielc*
wadded, ©rooked, branched from "below the middle* BO feat
high ox higher; branches widely spreading*. laxly rebranched*
wood strongly ringed» moderately hard, dingy white, odor#
less and tasteless; hark yellowish end with gray blotches,
smooth except the coarse lenticels; twigs numerous brown}
leaves mostly horizontal, recurved, rough and paler grew
beneath, chartaceous; pedicels green* ascending, gradually
thickened toward the endsj the t bads or rather the young
fruits solidly enclosed by the green bracts* stigsnatic
arms yellowish; ripe fruit shining, pale yellow nearly
l/% inoh long, compressed slightly* trunoately ellipsoid
from the side view; the subtending bracts rotately spread**
ing* whitish on the inner side, otherwise greeȤ fruit
juicy, sweet, usually with a single stone^IilNI g&cbose
seed; w3Dampata3ci;,t Bap wood or baric with a pale whitish
sap* Brooks Point, February, 1911*
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