 Ulingon (Bis.)
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Cratoxylum sumatranum |
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- Authors:
- Mansueto, Josel B, Sia,Isidro C, de la Pena, Mario
- Title:
- Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health - FOLK HEALING PRACTICES of SIQUIJOR ISLAND
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- Keywords:
- Family:
- Hypericaceae
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- Geographic area:
- Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Cantabon
- Habitat:
- Lowland area
- Latitude /longitude:
- Altitude:
- 477 m
- Habit:
- A small tree or an erect shrub.
- Height:
- 3 to 5 meters high
- Roots:
- Stem:
- Leaves:
- Leaves are opposite, well scattered, narrowly oblong to broadly oblong, paler beneath, 10 to 14 centimeters long, 3 to 4 centimeters wide, entire, slenderly pointed at the apex, blunt at the base, and borne upon petioles 5 to 8 millimeters long.
- Inflouresence & flowers:
- Flowers are deep-red, borne on terminal panicles which are sometimes elongated.
- Fruits:
- Fruit is smooth, dark reddish-brown, ellipsoid, about 1 centimeter long, subtended at the base by a persistent calyx, dehiscing apically into 3 parts, containing numerous small, thin, brown, winged seeds, each 5 millimeters long.
- Seeds:
- Seeds 3-10 per loculus, 5-7.5 by 1.5-2 mm, oblanceolate to oblong.
- Additional info:
- Its timber is suitable for light construction, furniture, carving, firewood and charcoal production.
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- Date identified:
- Specimen kept at:
- Abstracted by:
- Ando, JKA
- Date abstracted:
- 19/04/2015
- Province:
- Siquijor