Shorea ferruginea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea ferruginea Dyer ex Brandis

Protologue: Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 31: 91 (1895).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti menalit
• Indonesia: lampong tahan, tehan betung, tehan paru (south-eastern Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti menalit, engkabang keli (Sarawak), seraya melantai kecil (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 160 cm in diameter, buttresses prominent, up to 3.5 m high, bark orange-brown to fawn.
• Leaves lanceolate, 7-12 cm × 2.2-4 cm, with 13-15 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath, lower surface dull, with minute hair tufts.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 16 cm × 2.5 cm.

S. ferruginea is fairly common on narrow ridges and well-drained clay soils up to 1100 m altitude. The density of the wood is 450-465 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

29, 30, 89, 100, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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