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<big>''[[Shorea resinosa]]'' Foxw.</big>
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:Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 234, pl. 19 (1932).

== Vernacular names ==

*Malaysia: meranti belang (general), lemesa, sama rupa meranti (Peninsular).

== Distribution ==

Peninsular Malaysia, central Sumatra and western Sarawak.

== Uses ==

The timber is used as white meranti.

== Observations ==

*A large tree up to 50 m tall, bole branchless for 18-24 m and with a diameter up to 125 cm, buttresses absent to large.
*Leaves lanceolate to elliptical, 6.5-13 cm × 3.5-7 cm, glabrous, with 10-13 pairs of secondary veins, distinctly yellow beneath, petiole 9-17 mm long.
*Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
*Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9.5 cm × 2.5 cm, nut excreting resin.

''S. resinosa'' occurs on leached soils on low hills up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 690-720 kg/m<sup>3</sup> at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

31, 253, 258, 358, 514, 535, 677, 748.

== Main genus page ==

*[[Shorea (white meranti) (PROSEA)|''Shorea'' (white meranti)]]

== Authors ==

*M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)

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