Kamatog

Scientific name
Sympetalandra densiflora
Family Name
Fabaceae
Its local name in different regions
Local Name Place
Abinal, Pali, Sasal Cagayan
Balakbakan Lanao
Bulisising, Kihaulit Isabela
Malasantol Masbate

Conservation Status

Near Threatened

IUCN

EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC

Endangered

DAO

EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
1/526
2/526
3/526
4/526
5/526
6/526
7/526
8/526
9/526
10/526
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Kamatog can reach up to:

Height

25 m

Diameter

150 cm

Outer bark reddish-brown, smooth when young, scaly when mature
Leaves bipinnate, spiral, each pinna with 3-4 pairs of leaflets; petiole 5 cm or longer in larger leaves; leaflets subcoriaceoous, ovate or elliptic, 5-11 x 1.8-4.5 cm
Flowers are creamy white, oblong, 1.5-2 x 3-5 mm, in terminal or subterminal, panicles, up to 30 cm long.
Fruit a woody compressed pod, obovate-oblong, and slightly oblique, 10-18 x 3-4 cm, dehiscent, prominently reticulate-striate with some parallel veins along the sutures, the valves 1 mm thick; seeds 1-4, more or less orbicular, up to 5 cm in diameter.
0-500
Found in forests from lowland up to 500 masl; on Mt Makiling, Laguna on the lower slopes. (Fernando et al., 2004).

Seeds

Cuttings

Found in forests from lowland up to 500 masl; on Mt Makiling, Laguna on the lower slopes. (Fernando et al., 2004).

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