Vasilis Teodoridis:
Burseraceae | Canarium
2. Canarium pimela K. D. Koenig; Ann. Bot. (König & Sims). 1: 361. 1804.
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Canarium nigrum (Loureiro) Engler (1896); not Roxburgh (1832); C. pimeloides Govaerts; nom. illeg. superfl.; C. tramdenum C. D. Dai & Yakovlev; Pimela nigra Loureiro.
Trees; up to 20 m tall; ca. 45 cm d.b.h. Branchlets ca. 1 cm in diam.; glabrous. Leaves exstipulate; leaflets 4-6 pairs; blades broadly elliptic; ovate; or rounded; 6-17 x 2-7.5 cm; glabrous; base cuneate; margin entire; apex acute; lateral veins 8-15 pairs; reticulate veins conspicuous. Flowers in cymose panicles or inflorescences rarely racemose; glabrous; with more flowers in male plants. Calyx ca. 2.5 mm; shallowly lobed in male flowers; 3.5-4 mm; shallowly lobed or nearly truncate in female flowers. Petals ca. 8 mm in female flowers. Filaments connate for about 1/2 of length; disk fleshy with center depressed in male flowers; thin and shallowly 6-lobed in female flowers; anthers with 2 lines of bristles. Infructescences 8-35 cm; 1-4-fruited; pedicel ca. 2 cm; persistent calyx nearly flat; 8-10 mm in diam. Drupe purple-black when ripe; narrowly ovoid; 3-4 x 1.7-2 cm; cross section nearly rounded. Fl. Apr-May; fr. May-Nov.
Forests; 500-1300 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; S Yunnan [Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam].
Deng and Zhu (Taxon 54: 550. 2005) proposed the name Canarium pimela for conservation; which was subsequently recommended by the Committee for Vascular Plants (Brummitt; Taxon 56: 592. 2007).