Sindora velutina (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sindora velutina J.G. Baker

Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 269 (1878).

Synonyms

• Sindora parvifolia Backer ex K. Heyne (1927).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: sindur, kaparantu (Sumatra), kayu bulan (East Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: sepetir beludu besar, sepetir beludu kechil (Peninsular), ensunut (Sarawak).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as sepetir in house-building and for utensils. The wood-oil is used medicinally.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, rarely up to 40 m, with a straight columnar bole up to 100 cm in diameter.
• Leaves with (8-)10-12 leaflets, leaflets 3.5-12.5 cm × 1.5-5 cm, firmly leathery and densely velvety pubescent beneath.
• Flowers with 11-13 mm long woolly hirsute calyx lobes lacking spines.
• Pod elliptical, ovate to circular, up to 12 cm long, with numerous slender, stiff spines.

S. velutina occurs scattered in non-inundated places on sandy or clayey soils, often on hillsides, sometimes in marshy places. The density of the timber is 520-730 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

100, 102, 146, 186, 190, 318, 325, 779.

Main genus page

• Sindora (Timbers)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)