Mentulang Daun Lebar (HT 2013 210)

Reference ID
HT 2013-210

Scientific name: Alangium ridleyi
Family name: Cornaceae
Girth: 2.2 m @ 1.3 m height
Height: 13 m

Location
Singapore Botanic Gardens,
along Dell Lane

The tree can grow up to a trunk girth of at least 2m.

This Singapore native species was named after Henry Nicholas Ridley, the former Director of the Singapore Botanic Gardens. It was classified as nationally extinct in the Total Vascular Plant Flora of Singapore (2009) until it was rediscovered in the forests by NParks staff and reclassified in 2014 as critically endangered in Singapore.

This Heritage Tree in the Singapore Botanic Gardens is likely to be the type tree or part of the original type population used in the Herbarium sheets. This is based on the supporting information from Ridley's type specimen and Ridley's notes in 'Flora of Malay Peninsula, King's description'.

Reprinted here from the Flora of Malay Peninsula, Vol 1, 1922, page 893:

"Habitat: lowland woods, apparently rare; I have seen only one tree. Singapore, rockery in Gardens (Ridley). Native name: Lidah Kerbau"

For more information on this species, please refer to NParks' Flora & Fauna Web profile here.

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📷: Hazri Boey