''Chisocheton koordersii'' is a tree in the family
Meliaceae. It is named for the Dutch botanist
Sijfert Hendrik Koorders
Sijfert Hendrik Koorders (1863 – 1919) was a Dutch botanist, who worked primarily on the flora of Java.
Life
Koorders was born in Bandung, Indonesia on 29 November 1863. In 1881 he graduated from the Hogere Burgerschool in Haarlem in the ...
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Description
The tree grows up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is brown. The flowers are white. Fruits are reddish, round, up to in diameter.[
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Distribution and habitat
''Chisocheton koordersii'' is found in Borneo and Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
. Its habitat is rain forests from to altitude.[
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References
koordersii
Trees of Borneo
Trees of Sulawesi
Plants described in 1979
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