Terminalia cambodiana

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Terminalia cambodiana
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Combretaceae
Genus: Terminalia
Species:
T. cambodiana
Binomial name
Terminalia cambodiana
Gagnep., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 3: 284 (1916)[1][2]

Terminalia cambodiana is a species of tree in the family Combretaceae, growing some 6–15 m tall with whitish-grey, exfoliating bark and large greenish branches.[3] It is found in flooded forest communities of Cambodia and southern Vietnam.[2][4]

There is a report of the trees growing infrequently in seasonally flooded forest along the Se Buy River alongside Na Kae village, Kham Khuean Kaeo District, Yasothon Province, northeast Thailand.[5] These trees, with a dbh of 10 cm, grow mainly at 0 to 3m above the water low level, being flooded from 42 to 83 days a year.

Within the floodplain of the lake Tonle Sap, western Cambodia, T. cambodiana occurs rarely, in isolated pockets of forest within the Secondary scrubland (short tree-shrubland association) community, where sprawling shrubs and lianas form a closed canopy some 3-5m tall.[3] In this area firewood collection was intense in the twentieth century. T. cambodiana and Diospyros cambodiana were extensively exploited for charcoal making in the beginning of the 20th century, and so became rare in the inundated floodplain. People also reported that availability of this tree decreased in the two years around 2007–2009, though it is still harvested.

The branches of the tree, when flooded at Tonle Sap, were one of the favoured spots for the hairy-nosed otter, Lutra sumatrana, to place its spraints.[6]

Tâ' uë,[4] ta-uah[3] is its common name in Khmer. The wood of T. cambodiana is used in the construction of fishing dams, to make columns for buildings and to make charcoal.[4] Its bark is used in traditional medicine to treat diarrhoea, fever, post-natal haemorrhage and fish-bites.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Terminalia cambodiana Gagnep., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 3: 284 (1916)". International Plant Name Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Terminalia cambodiana Gagnep". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Science. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d Gaëla Roudy (2009). Natural Resource Use And Livelihood Trends in the Tonle Sap Floodplain, Cambodia: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Direct Use Values in Peam Ta Our Floating Village (PDF). London: Report in partial fulfilment of MSc Environmental Technology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences (University of London), Department of Environmental Science & Technology. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Pauline Dy Phon (2000). Plants Utilised In Cambodia/Plantes utilisées au Cambodge. Phnom Penh: Imprimerie Olympic. pp. 598–9.
  5. ^ Yoneda, R.; Poungparn, S.; Sano, M.; Tabuchi, R.; Patanaponpaiboon, P. (2011). "Forest structure and species composition of seasonal flood forest along the Se Buy River in Yasothon Province, Northeast Thailand" (PDF). J. Agrofor. Environ. 5 (Special issue): 89–93. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  6. ^ Heng Sokrith; Dong Tangkor; Hon Naven; Olsson, Annette (2016). "The hairy-nosed otter Lutra sumatrana in Cambodia: distribution and notes on ecology and conservation" (PDF). Cambodian Journal of Natural History. 2016 (2): 102–11. Retrieved 26 April 2020.


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