Buchanania macrocarpa

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Buchanania macrocarpa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Anacardiaceae
Genus: Buchanania
Species:
B. macrocarpa
Binomial name
Buchanania macrocarpa
Lauterb.
Synonyms[1]
  • Buchanania mollis Lauterb.
  • Buchanania montana Lauterb.

A tree in the Anacardiaceae family, Buchanania macrocarpa is native to an area in the southwest Pacific from the Solomon Islands to the northern Maluku Islands.

Description[]

The tree has greyish-black, quite thick, scaly dead bark, while the living bark is red when a blaze/slash is made.[2] There is a large drooping crown with horizontal branches.

Distribution[]

The plant is native to an area from the Solomon Islands to the northern Maluku islands.[1] Countries and regions that it occurs in are: Solomon Islands; Papua Niugini (PNG, including Bismarck Archipelago); Indonesia (West Papua, northern Maluku Islands).

Habitat and ecology[]

The species favours wet or marshy places.[2]

In the forests around the Hindenberg Wall, PNG, this tree is common in the primary lower montane forest at 1495–1770m altitude. This type of forest has a canopy dominated by and , with other common canopy taxa being B. macrocarpa, Campnosperma brevipetiolatum, Opocunonia nymanii, Pimelodendron amboinicum, Planchonella and Calophyllum trees while scattered individuals of Pandanus are another characteristic of the forest type.[3]

In the , Eastern Highlands Province, PNG, within hill forest, the species provides food for the cockatoo Probosciger aterrimus, (Palm cockatoo).[4]

In the village forests of Negeri Saleman, north Seram Island, Indonesia, the tree occurs as a shade tree in Theobroma cacao/cacoa and coffee plantations and in forest harvested for resin.[5] It also grows in the secondary forest of the area.

Vernacular names[]

Uses[]

The Yachai people of Mappi Regency, West Papua, use the good quality wood to make medium-sized boats.[6]

The people of Negeri Saleman, north Seram Island, Indonesia use the wood for a variety of house construction elements, including the framework, roof supports and frames, ridges and doors, as well as a shade tree in plantations.[5]

History[]

The species was first described by the German botanist and explorer Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach (1864-1937), who explored at the end of the Nineteenth Century the area then known as Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (part of German New Guinea, now part of Papua Niugini). He described the taxa in 1920 in the periodical Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (Leipzig).[7]

Taxonomic note[]

There is a similarly named taxa Buchanania macrocarpa Merr. ex Setch., which this is not, the Merrill taxa is now a synonym for Christoph.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Buchanania macrocarpa Lauterb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Versteegh, Chr. (1971). Key To The Most Important Native Trees of Irian Barat (Indonesia) Based On Field Characters. Wageningen: H. Veenman & Zonen N.V. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ Venter, Fanie; Arihafa, Arison (2015). "Chapter 2 Vascular plants". In Richards, Stephen J.; Whitmore, Nathan (eds.). A rapid biodiversity assessment of Papua New Guinea's Hindenburg Wall region (PDF). Goroka, PNG.: Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea Program. pp. 14–43. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  4. ^ Symes, Craig T.; Marsden, Stuart J. (2007). "Patterns of supra-canopy flight by pigeons and parrots at a hill-forest site in Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Emu. 107: 115–125. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c Purwanto, Yohannes; Cosiaux, Ariane (2012). Studi Sistem Pertanian Tradisional Masyrakat Negeri Saleman, Seram Utara, Kabupaten Maluku Tengah (PDF). Laporan Penelitian COLUPSIA Project, CIRAD dan Unieropa. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Lanoeroe, Serlly; Kesaulija, Elisa Markus; Rahawarin, Yohanes Yoseph (2005). "Pemanfaatan Jenis Tumbuhan Berkayu sebagai Bahan Baku Perahu Tradisional oleh Suku Yachai di Kabupaten Mappi/The use of vascular plants as traditional boat raw material by Yachai tribe in Mappi Regency". Biodiversitas. 6 (3 Juli): 212–216. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Buchanania macrocarpa Lauterb., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 56(3): 350 (1920)". International Plant Name Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Buchanania macrocarpa Merr. ex Setch". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
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