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Nomenclature etc. DIPTEROCARPACEAE. Cotylelobium burckii, C. lanceolatum, C. melanoxylon. Trade and local names: resak batu (BN); guam, resak bukit (ID); khiam (TH). Not protected under CITES regulations.
Tree. Geographic distribution: Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indomalesia.
General. Heartwood basically brown, red. Sapwood colour distinct from heartwood colour. Density 0.81–1.16 g/cm³.
Vessels. Wood diffuse porous. Vessels exclusively solitary. Average tangential vessel diameter 120–140 µm. Average number of vessels/mm² 8–10(–20) (most numerous in Cotylelobium burckii). Perforation plates simple. Intervessel pits extremely rare if at all present alternate, average diameter (vertical) 4–5 µm, pits vestured. Vessel-ray pits with reduced borders or apparently simple, different from intervessel pits, rounded or angular (predominantly circular and very large), unilaterally compound and coarse. Tyloses present (abundant), thinwalled.
Tracheids and fibres. Fibres of medium wall thickness to very thick-walled. Average fibre length 1000–1500 µm. Fibre pits common in both radial and tangential walls, distinctly bordered.
Axial parenchyma. Axial parenchyma apotracheal, or paratracheal. Apotracheal axial parenchyma diffuse, or diffuse-in-aggregates. Paratracheal axial parenchyma vasicentric, aliform, and confluent. Aliform parenchyma of the winged type. Axial parenchyma as strands. Average number of cells per strand: 3–6.
Rays. Rays 6–8 per tangential mm, multiseriate, 2–6(–8) cells wide. Rays of two distinct sizes. Height of large rays commonly over 1000 µm. Rays composed of two or more cell types (heterocellular). Heterocellular rays with square and upright cells restricted to marginal rows, mostly 1 marginal row of upright or square cells or mostly 2–4 marginal rows of upright or square cells. Sheath cells present.
Secretory structures. Intercellular canals present, oriented axially, axial intercellular canals diffusely arranged (sometimes grouped in small units).
Mineral inclusions. Crystals present (only in: C. melanoxylon), prismatic, located in ray cells. Crystal-containing ray cells upright and/or square. Number of crystals per cell or chamber one. Silica present, as grains; in rays cells.
Illustrations. • Transverse section. Cotylelobium melanoxylon. axial intercellular canals, solitary (ICs) and in tangential bands (ICb). ICs. ICs. ICs. ICb. • Tangential section. Cotylelobium lanceolatum. • Radial section. Cotylelobium lanceolatum. silica grains in ray cells, blow-up next illustration. • Silica. Cotylelobium lanceolatum. silica grains in ray cells.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Richter, H.G., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2000 onwards. Commercial timbers: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. In English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. Version: 9th April 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
