Published in Phytologia 39(3): 144. 1978 ; but see Fosberg in J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 31(3): 95 (1941)
The native range of this species is as a cultigen from NW. Pacific. It is a tree and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome. It is used as animal food, a poison, a medicine and invertebrate food, has environmental uses and social uses and for fuel and food.