Shorea retinodes (PROSEA)
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Shorea retinodes v. Slooten
- Protologue: Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenzorg, ser. 3, 18: 243, f. 7-8 (1949).
Vernacular names
- Indonesia: balamsarai, damar mansarai (western Sumatra), damar merilem (northern Sumatra).
Distribution
Sumatra.
Uses
The timber is used as white meranti. S. retinodes is an important source of a clear resin called "damar mata kucing".
Observations
A large tree up to 55 m tall with bole branchless for 20-30(-35) m and buttresses up to 2 m high; leaves narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, thinly leathery, 5.5-12 cm × 1.8-4.8 cm, with 15-18 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface coppery lepidote, petiole 12-20 mm long; stamens 15, stylopodium absent; larger fruit calyx lobes up to 7.5 cm × 1 cm. S. retinodes is locally common on slopes up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is 570-910 kg/m3at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.
Selected sources
253, 344, 461, 743, 748.
