JELUTONG PIPIT (Kibatalia arborea)
Trade Name
Jelutong pipit
Scientific Name
Kibatalia arborea (Blume) G. Don
Family
APOCYNACEAE
Common Names
Jelutong pipit; Lingorumbolia (Indonesia); Tamadak (Malaysia); Jelutong beruang (Malaysia)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Tabernaemontana ovalis Miq; Kickxia arborea (Blume) Blume; Hasseltia arborea Blume
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a small to large tree, up to 45 m tall, with a straight bole, branchless for up to 30 m. The diameter reaches up to 120 cm, sometimes with small buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
Natural Habitat
This species grows scattered in the canopy or subcanopy of lowland and lower montane primary rain forests, on well drained places, up to 500 m of altitude.
Non Timber Uses
The bark contains several medicinally potential alkaloids.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally vessels with colored deposits. Vestured pits. Vessels per mm2 5 to 20. Vessels per mm2 less than 6 (rare). Simple perforation plates. Vessel-ray pits similar to intervessel pits in size and shape. Intervessel pits medium, 7 to 1 Occasionally axial parenchyma in marginal or in seemingly marginal bands. Paratracheal axial parenchyma scanty and/or vasicentric. Axial parenchyma aliform. Occasionally axial parenchyma confluent. Prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Occasionally larger rays more than 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in radial alignment in procumbent ray cells (chambered cells). Occasionally body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cel Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Color
The heartwood is white, not clearly differentiated from the white to pale yellow sapwood.
Grain
It has straight grain.
Texture
The wood is mostly fine in texture.
Natural Durability
This species is readily attacked by sap-staining fungi.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
5
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.36
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.38
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
6.2
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
3.4
Drying Defects
Ease of Drying: Air seasoning is reported fairly easy.
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.8
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
520
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
69088
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
255
Compression perpendicular to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
41
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
61
Workability
Machining
Machining of this species is reported to be easy.
Turning
30
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
HOUSING GENERAL, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, TURNING, cutlery, BENDING, tennis rackets, SPORTS, bowling polo balls, TOOLS, tool handles, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, pencil, shoes, matches, moldings
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Knife Handles
- 33 - Embassy of Gabon in Japan
Bending
- 35 - Embassy of Myanmar in Japan
Tennis Rackets
- 37 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Sports
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Balls Bowling Polo
- 40 - Internet
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Other & Musical Instruments
- 63 - Madeiras do Brazil II
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
Pencils
- 67 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VIII, Calophyllum brasilense, Couratari panamensis, Dendropanax arboreum y Bombacopsis sessilis
Shoes
- 70 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux de l`union francaise
Matches
- 71 - Proprietes physiques et mecaniques des bois tropicaux, premier supplement
Molding
- 79 - Padronização da Nomenclatura Comercial Brasileira das Madeiras Tropicais Amazônicas, Sugestão
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