MANGIN (Ganophyllum falcatum)
Trade Name
Mangin
Scientific Name
Ganophyllum falcatum Br.
Family
SAPINDACEAE
Common Names
Salngen (Philippines); Scaly ash; Kayu mangir (Indonesia); Ki angir (Indonesia); Mangir; Tapus (Indonesia); Lulibas (Philippines); Panapok ayer (Sabah); Arangen (Philippines)
Scientific Name Synonyms
Dictyoneura integerrima Radlk
Description Of The Tree
Botanical Description
It is a medium sized to large tree to 42 m tall. The bole is usually straight and cylindrical, but sometimes poorly shaped, with flutes or bosses. It is branchless 30 m, up to 150 cm in diameter, sometimes with small buttresses.
Natural Habitat
This tree is found scattered in rain-forests at low altitudes, usually in well-drained locations.
Natural Distribution
It ranges throughout Andaman Islands, South-east Asia, northern Queensland to New Guinea, New Britain and Solomon Islands.
Wood Identification
Anatomic Description Of Wood
Wood diffuse porous. Occasionally vessels in radial multiples of 4 or more common. 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. Occasionally intervessel pi Axial parenchyma aliform. Axial parenchyma confluent. Occasionally prismatic crystals in non-chambered axial parenchyma cells. Occasionally prismatic crystals in chambered axial parenchyma cells and/or in fibers. 3 to 4 cells per parenchyma strand. 5 to 8 cell 4 to 10 rays per mm (medium). Ray height more than 1 mm. Larger rays more than 4 seriate. Prismatic crystals in radial alignment in procumbent ray cells (chambered cells). Body ray cells procumbent with mostly 2 to 4 rows of upright and/or square marginal cel Fibers very thick walled. Fibers with simple to minutely bordered pits.
Availability
Cites Status
Unrestricted
General Wood Description
Odor
Usually it has no taste or odor, but sometimes the wood has an unpleasant smell.
Color
The sapwood is pale yellowish-white or straw-colored. The heartwood varies from yellow-brown to pale brown.
Grain
The grain is usually straight, occasionally slightly interlocked.
Texture
Texture of this species is moderately fine.
Natural Durability
The wood is durable under cover, but non-durable when exposed to the weather or in contact with the ground.
Natural durability index (1= Very high durability, 7=Vey low durability)
6
Resistance To Impregnation
The heartwood is resistant to impregnation with preservatives, even under pressure. The sapwood is permeable to preservatives.
Wood Physical Properties
Basic Density or Specific Gravity (O.D. weight/vol. green) (g/cm³)
0.67
Air-dry Density (Weight and volume at 12%MC) (g/cm³)
0.76
Total shrinkage Tangential (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
10.0
Total shrinkage Radial (Saturated to 0%MC) (%)
5.2
Dimensional stability ratio (Total Tangential Shrinkage %/Total Radial Shrinkage %)
1.9
Wood Chemical Properties
Wood Mechanical Properties
Bending Strength (MOR),12%MC (kgf/cm²)
1080
Stiffness (MOE) 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
141335
Compression parallel to fiber 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
673
Shear strength radial 12%MC (kgf/cm²)
163
Janka hardness (side) 12%MC (kgf)
817
Workability
Sawing
The response of this wood in sawing is good to fair.
Rotary Veneer Cutting
The peeling properties are good and the bonding strength of veneer using casein glue meets standard requirements.
Sliced Veneer
The peeling properties are good and the bonding strength of veneer using casein glue meets standard requirements.
Machining
The workability of this species is reported to be easy to fair.
Turning
30
REFERENCED USES
End Uses Summary
EXTERIOR GENERAL, bridges, poles, crossties, HOUSING GENERAL, flooring, frames, steps, panelling, FURNITURE AND CABINETS, cabinets, PLYWOOD AND VENEER, faces, TURNING, SPORTS, TOOLS, tool handles, agricultural tools, CONTAINERS, truck bodies, truck flooring, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, boat hulls, boat deck, OTHER AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, handicrafts, matches, moldings
Exterior General
- 1 - Tabela de resultados de ensaios fisicos e mecanicos
Bridges
- 2 - 25 madeiras da amazonia de valor comercial, caracterizacao, macroscopica, usos comuns e indices qualificativos
Poles
- 3 - Estudo dendrologico e determinacao das caracteristicas fisicas e mecanicas do genipapo (Genipa americana)
Crossties
- 8 - Maderas latinoamericas. III, Podocarpus standleyi ,Podocarpus oleifolius, Drims granadensis, Magnolia poasana y Didymopanax pittieri
General Housing
- 10 - Silica in Timbers
Flooring
- 14 - Handbook of Hardwoods
Frames
- 16 - Woods of the World
Steps
- 17 - Tree Conservation Database
Paneling
- 18 - W3TROPICOS Missouri Botanical Garden
Furniture Cabinets
- 21 - Tropical timbers of the world. Part III-Southeast Asian and Oceanian Species.
Cabinet
- 24 - Empire Timbers
Panels, Veneers
- 25 - Directory of Timber Trade Malaysia
Faces
- 26 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Turning
- 30 - Embassy of Honduras in Japan
Sports
- 38 - Annual Review and Assessment of the World Timber Situation 1998-ITTO
Tools
- 42 - Utilización Industrial de Nuevas Especies Forestales en el Perú.
Tool Handles
- 43 - Maderas de Bolivia (Características y Usos de 55 Maderas Tropicales)
Agricultural Tools
- 44 - Atlas of Peruvian Woods
Truck Body
- 53 - Timbers of the New World
Truck Flooring
- 54 - Bulletin of the Government Forest Experiment Station N.157: Identification of Tropical Woods
Shipbuilding
- 55 - Tropical Timber Atlas of Latin America
Boat Hulls
- 57 - Estadísticas de Aprovechamiento, Exportación y comercialización Nacional de Productos Forestales
Boat Decking
- 59 - Programa Nacional de uso Sostenible de los Bosques e Incremento a las Exportaciones.
Handcraft
- 66 - Maderas latinoamericanas. VII. Caracteristicas anatomicas. propiedades fisicomecanicas, de secado, y tratabilidad de la madera juvenil de Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav. Oken.)
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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