''Chisocheton koordersii'' is a tree in the family

Meliaceae Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...

. 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, Dutch East Indies on 29 November 1863. In 1881 he graduated from the Hogere Burgerschool in Haarlem ...

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.

Distribution and habitat

''Chisocheton koordersii'' is found in

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

and

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

. Its habitat is rain forests from to altitude.

References

koordersii Trees of Borneo Trees of Sulawesi Plants described in 1979 {{rosid-tree-stub