Shorea resinosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea resinosa Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 234, pl. 19 (1932).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: meranti belang (general), lemesa, sama rupa meranti (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, central Sumatra and western Sarawak.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti.

Observations

• A large tree up to 50 m tall, bole branchless for 18-24 m and with a diameter up to 125 cm, buttresses absent to large.
• Leaves lanceolate to elliptical, 6.5-13 cm × 3.5-7 cm, glabrous, with 10-13 pairs of secondary veins, distinctly yellow beneath, petiole 9-17 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9.5 cm × 2.5 cm, nut excreting resin.

S. resinosa occurs on leached soils on low hills up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 690-720 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

31, 253, 258, 358, 514, 535, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)