Wood - Specimen details

Wood - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 76278

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Plant Name 102.00 EBENACEAE Diospyros pseudomalabarica Entry Book Number 7.2000
Artefact Name Wood Vernacular Name
Iso Country Brunei TDWG Region Brunei
Parts Held Wood Geography Description Brunei, Asia-Tropical, Malesia, Borneo, Belait
Uses WoodUse: User: Not defined TDWG use
Storage Woods size B Related Items
Donor Donor No
Donor Date Donor Notes
Collector Coode MJE, Kirkup DW et al Collector No 6944
Collection Notes Collection Date 06/12/1991
Exhibition Expedition
Number Components Publication
Notes: Bukit Teraja Mixed Dipterocarp Forest on slope. Ridge path SOuth of Summit. Belait Series Sandstones. Leaning tree 18m x 25cm Bark dark brown, with fine vertical cracks and shallow fissures; outer-bark layered with dark and light, apparently with outer la, yer brown, then a pale layer, then a thin black layer; inner-bark reddish, hard, 2mm thick. Wood straw all through. Leaves midgreen, paler beneath. Fruit globose, greenish with rusty fuzz. One cut fruit 8-locular, 5 seeds; developing seeds with +/- ru, minate, translucent endosperm, the infoldings orange-brown; embryo white, curved. A layer of light fawn-brownish hard bodies present just under the epicarp. (With: Soe Paing, Niga, Ariffin, Jangarun, Ibrahim, Salleh, Ramli, Han)

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