Heritiera elata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera elata Ridley

Protologue: Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Straits Br. 50: 112 (1908).

• Brunei: dungun bukit
• Thailand: thong suk, ngonkai-khao (Nakhon Si Thammarat), ngonkai-bok (Surat Thani).

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo; possibly also Thailand.

The timber is occasionally used as mengkulang.

• A fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall with bole up to 75 cm in diameter and large buttresses.
• Leaves simple, densely scaly beneath, petioles 0.5-2.5 cm long, stout.
• Panicles lax, up to 10 cm long.
• Fruit almond-shaped, with a fairly small apical wing, glabrous.

H. elata is apparently rare and occurs in lowland forest, especially on ridges and slopes of hills.

33, 102, 146, 378, 779.

• Heritiera

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