Terminalia copelandii | ICRAF Database

Taxonomy

Species:: Terminalia copelandii Elmer
Genus:: Terminalia
Family:: Combretaceae

Synonym(s)

Common Names

Botanic

A fairly large tree up to 40 m tall, bole straight and cylindrical, usually short but sometimes up to 23 m long, up to 115 cm in diameter, with many large buttresses up to 2 m high, bark surface shallowly longitudinally cracking and flaking into small oblong pieces, grey or brown, inner bark pinkish; Leaves obovate, 15-40 cm x 4.5-18 cm, usually subcordate at base, sparsely pubescent and sometimes minutely verrucose below, with (20-)23-30 pairs of secondary veins, petiole very short, up to 10 mm long. Flowers in an axillary spike 22-50 cm long, calyx tube fulvous-sericeous; fruit ovoid to ellipsoid, 3.5-6 cm x 2.2-3 cm, nearly glabrous when mature, sometimes flattened or faintly 5- lobed.

Habitat

T. copelandii is found in primary forest and swamp forest, both inland and in coastal regions

Management

T. copelandii has proven to grow well in monocultures.

Uses and Function

Erosion control: It has potential to stabilize river banks

Timber: The wood is used, e.g. for house construction, canoe making and veneer; the tree is also planted. Food: The kernels of the fruits are edible.

Wood Density

9 rows


	0.545		0.5450	12	PROSEA Timber Tree, CD ROM series, ETI Biodiversity Center, World Biodiversity Databases	The Philippines
0.33		0.62	0.4750	12	Lemmens, R.H.M.J., Soerjanegara, I. and Wong, W.C. (Editors), 1995. Plant Resources of South-East Asia No 5(2). Timber trees: Minor commercial timbers. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. 655 pp.
0.39	0.43	0.49	0.4300	15	Oey Djoen Seng (1951) in Soewarsono (1990). Specific Gravity of Indonesian Woods and its Significance for Practical Use, FRDC, Forestry Department, Bogor, Indonesia	Bengkulu, Aceh (Indonesia)
0.43		0.65	0.5400		Direktorat Bina Program Kehutanan. 1982. Jenis-Jenis Pohon disusun Berdasarkan Nama Daerah dan Nama Botaninya Buku 3. Jambi	Jambi, Nusa Tenggara Barat (Indonesia)
0.72			0.7200		Direktorat Bina Program Kehutanan. 1982. Jenis-Jenis Pohon disusun Berdasarkan Nama Daerah dan Nama Botaninya Buku 7. Bengkulu	Bengkulu, Indonesia
	0.396		0.3960		Bolza, E. 1975. Properties and uses from 175 timber species from Papua New Guinea and West Irian. C.S.I.R.O. Division of Building Research Report 34.	Australia/PNG (tropical)
	0.46		0.4600		Reyes, G., Brown, S., Chapman, J. and Lugo, A.E. (1992). Wood densities of tropical tree species. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, New Orleans, LA.	Asia
	0.43		0.4300		Jenis-Jenis Pohon Disusun Berdasarkan Nama Daerah dan Nama Botaninya, Buku 18 A, Kalimantan Tengah	Central Kalimantan
	0.43		0.4300		Jenis-Jenis Pohon Disusun Berdasarkan Nama Daerah dan Nama Botaninya, Buku 10, Maluku	Maluku

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Statistic Summary of Wood Density (g/cm³)

N: 9
Mean: 0.4918
Median: 0.4600
Mode: 0.4300
Stdv: 0.0995
Variance: 0.0099
Range: [0.396, 0.72]

Cumulative Distribution Plot

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Terminalia copelandii Elmer

Properties

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Variable

Statistic Summary of Wood Density (g/cm³)