Canarium

The New York Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden
Plants of Madagascar
Burseraceae
Canarium scholasticum ined.
Madagascar. Tamatave. Commune Ambanjana, Parc
National Masoala.
15°38’36"S, 49°58TlfiE
250 m.
On mild slope in mildly disturbed forest S of Ambanjana.
Tree 25 m x 53 cm diam, with low plank buttresses ca. 60
cm high extending 2 m from base. Outer bark gray, with
sparse but relatively large lenticels, shed in large irregular
plates, relatively thin. Inner bark reddish tan, brittle. Fruits
6-7 cm long, broadly oblong to oblong-(ob)ovoid, sparsely
white-lenticellate. Rare.
17-Jan-06
D. C. Daly, J. Raharimampionona, J. Razanatzoa, J. Aridy,
Senario 12968
National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration
04823199