Dipterocarpaceae FAMILY Vulnerable

Cotylelobium lanceolatum

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitTree

Growth—

A plant of the moist to wet, lowland tropics, where it is found at elevations up to 1,500 metres. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 19 - 34°c, but can tolerate 8 - 38°c^[1]. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 2,100 - 2,700mm, but tolerates 1,800 - 3,000mm^[1]. Grows best in a sunny position^[1]. Found in the wild on well-drained, light soils of low fertility^[1]. Prefers a pH in the range 4 - 4.5, tolerating 3.7 - 5^[1].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cotylelobium+lanceolatum>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

[1]Ecocrop — http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home ↩︎Basic information on a wide range of useful plants, plus details of environmental needs where available.
[2]Flora Malesiana Series 1 — Various · Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch · http://www.archive.org ↩︎A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet
[3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
[4]Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea — World Health Organisation · 2009 · ISBN 978-92-9061-249-0 ↩︎Traditional medicinal uses of 126 species from Papua New Guinea, including information on modern research into the plants.
[5]Tropical Timbers of the World. Ag. Handbook No. 607. — Chudnoff. Martin. · USDA Forest Service. Wisconsin. · 1984 ↩︎Terse details on the properties of the wood of almost 400 species of trees from the Tropics.