Buchanania macrocarpa

Species of tree in the Anacardiaceae family

Buchanania macrocarpa

Scientific classification
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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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 Syzygium versteegii and S. effusum, 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 Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, 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[edit]

* top, Yachai people of Mappi Regency, West Papua.[6]
* ketapang hutan (Indonesian language, Negeri Saleman, north Seram Island)[5]

## Uses[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Buchanania macrocarpa Lauterb". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
2. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q15541274
* BOLD: 531305
* CoL: NMC9
* GBIF: 5544570
* iNaturalist: 1072833
* IPNI: 69306-1
* IUCN: 198363974
* Open Tree of Life: 6123805
* Plant List: kew-2684802
* Plazi: C41C9B19-F7E6-840D-A2EB-DB09CACDD87F
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:69306-1
* Tropicos: 100301212
* WFO: wfo-0000573419
* ZooBank: AA6C1110-AFF6-4702-A07E-0113F6EE9B92

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