Litsea panamonja Hook.f.,
Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886)
Named after a local name for this species.
Note
The taxonomy of this species still needs to be sorted out, panamonja should
probably be panamanja, and Hook.f. is probably not the author of this species.
Description
Mid-canopy tree up to 39 m tall and 82 cm dbh. Stipules absent. Leaves
alternate, simple, penni-veined, glabrous, sometimes slightly whitish below.
Flowers ca. 10 mm diameter, white-yellow, placed in racemes. Fruits ca. 12 mm
diameter, red, fleshy drupes placed on enlarged flower base (cupule).
Ecology
In undisturbed mixed dipterocarp and (peat)-swamp forests up to 700 m
altitude. Usually on alluvial sites and along rivers, but also found on ridges.
On sandy to clay soils, but also on limestone. In secondary forests usually
present as a pre-disturbance remnant tree.
Distribution
India?, Indo-China, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Borneo (Sabah, South- and
East-Kalimantan), Moluccas.
Local names in Borneo
Kala-kala, Lalan, Medang, Tebuluk.
