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<big>''[[Sindora beccariana]]'' Backer ex de Wit</big>
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:Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 18: 18 (1949).

== Vernacular names ==

*Indonesia: sasundur, merdjang, anggi (Kalimantan)
*Malaysia: tampar hantoe (Sabah, Sarawak).

== Distribution ==

Borneo.

== Uses ==

The timber is used as sepetir. The bole is said to yield wood-oil.

== Observations ==

A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 35(-40) m tall with a cylindrical bole up to 100 cm in diameter.
*Leaves with 6-8 leaflets, leaflets 3.5-8 cm × 2-4 cm, thickly leathery and puberulous beneath.
*Flowers with 5.5-7 mm long, yellowish hairy calyx lobes lacking spines.
*Pod suborbicular, up to 9 cm long, with numerous spines, wine red.

''S. beccariana'' occurs scattered in lowland dipterocarp forest on sandy loam or clay soils. The density of the timber is 610-800 kg/m<sup>3</sup> at 15% moisture content.

== Selected sources ==

100, 146, 186.

== Main genus page ==

*[[Sindora (PROSEA Timbers)|''Sindora'' (Timbers)]]

== Authors ==

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

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