Anisoptera curtisii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera curtisii Dyer ex King

Protologue: Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 62(2): 100 (1893).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: keruing kucing (Singkep)
• Malaysia: mersawa kuning, rengkong (Peninsular)
• Thailand: krabak thong (Nakhon si Thammarat, Trang).

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra; possibly also in peninsular Burma.

Uses

The timber is used as mersawa.

Observations

• A large tree, with a prominently buttressed bole up to 75 cm in diameter.
• Leaves (4-)7-14 cm × (1.5-)2.5-6 cm, narrowly elliptical to oblanceolate, brilliant golden lepidote beneath, with 15-25 pairs of secondary veins prominent beneath and narrowly depressed above.
• Flower bud lanceolate, stamens about 25, stylopodium broadly ellipsoid-cylindrical, densely golden puberulent.

A. curtisii possibly hybridizes with A. costata and grows in mixed dipterocarp forest on well-drained, at least periodically dry soils, especially on coastal hills and inland ridges up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 610-815 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

258, 442, 625, 628, 677, 736, 748, 807.

Main genus page

• Anisoptera

Authors

• M.H.A. Hoffman (selection of species)