Sindora inermis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sindora inermis Merr.

Protologue: Philipp. Journ. Sc. 10: 314 (1915).

• Philippines: kayu galu (Magindanao), nito-nitong puti (Bikol), sinsud (Sulu).

The Philippines (southern Luzon, Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago).

The timber is used as sepetir, especially for high-grade furniture and interior work, musical instruments and fancy boxes. The pleasantly smelling wood-oil may be used in perfumes.

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with straight, cylindrical bole up to 75(-95) cm in diameter.
• Leaves with 4-8 leaflets, leaflets 6.5-12.5 cm × 4.5-7.5 cm, thinly leathery and glabrous.
• No information available on flowers.
• Pod broadly elliptical, up to 7 cm long, smooth and without spines.

S. inermis occurs in lowland forest, also along the seashore and near the mangrove zone. The supply of the timber is very limited. The species is probably closely related to S. galedupa.

86, 186, 319, 484, 579.

• Sindora (Timbers)

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)