Pterospermum diversifolium
Malvaceae FAMILY

Pterospermum diversifolium

Pterospermum diversifolium

Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Pterospermum diversifolium is a tree. The bole can be up to 50cm in diameter[ 721 Title Commercial Woods of the Philippines; Their Preparation and Uses Publication Philippines Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 14 Author Schneider E.E. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Bureau of Forestry; Manilla. Year 1916 ISBN Description A series of booklets dealing with various aspects of the Philippine forests. This volume looks at the preparation and uses of the commercial woods of the Philippines. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood. The wood is also sometimes traded locally[ 721 Title Commercial Woods of the Philippines; Their Preparation and Uses Publication Philippines Bureau of Forestry Bulletin No. 14 Author Schneider E.E. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Bureau of Forestry; Manilla. Year 1916 ISBN Description A series of booklets dealing with various aspects of the Philippine forests. This volume looks at the preparation and uses of the commercial woods of the Philippines. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical
Native RangeE. Asia - India, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines.
HabitatEvergreen and old clearing forest at elevations from 50 - 800 metres in Thailand[ 944 Title Thai Forest Bulletin (Botany) No. 23 Publication Author Publisher The Forest Herbarium; Bangkok. Year 1995 ISBN 0495-3843 Description A botanical journal, publishing papers on taxonomy (especially vascular plants), nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics, plant geography, and floristics; also morphology, palynology, cytotaxonomy, chemotaxonomy, anatomy and other relevant disciplines. ].