Heritiera aurea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera aurea Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 55 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 518 (1959).

• Indonesia: papungu merah (Kalimantan).

Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan).

The timber is used as mengkulang.

• A fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall with up to 20 m branchless bole, 80 cm in diameter, buttresses tall, up to 4.5 m.
• Leaves simple, densely scaly beneath, petioles 3-5 cm long, stout.
• Fruit with large wing, glabrous.

H. aurea resembles H. simplicifolia, except for the indumentum of the leaves, and has been confused frequently with the latter species. The tree is locally common on leached loamy soil in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 500 m altitude.

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• Heritiera

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)