Shorea maxima (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea maxima (King) Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 330 (1938).

Synonyms

• Balanocarpus maximus King (1893).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: meranti bahru, meranti sengkawang puteh, resak (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bole branchless for up 15 m and up to 65 cm in diameter, often not buttressed, branches twisted.
• Leaves elliptical to lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, 8.5-19 cm × 3.5-7 cm, glabrous, with 7-10 pairs of secondary veins, petiole 10-15 mm long.
• Stamens 10, stylopodium absent.
• Fruit calyx lobes subequal, up to 15 mm long.

S. maxima occurs scattered on undulating land and hills up to 1300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 640-675 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

102, 124, 253, 258, 318, 514, 677, 748, 811.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)