Anisoptera grossivenia (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera grossivenia v. Slooten

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 16: 431 (1940).

• Brunei: benchaloi, merbakau
• Indonesia: cangal padi, kantooi (Dajak, Kalimantan), damar kelasi (Malay, Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: mersawa kunyit (general), pengiran kasar (Sabah), merkunyit (Sarawak).

Borneo.

The wood is used as mersawa, especially for plywood production.

• A large tree up to 60 m tall, bole tall and straight, branchless for 14-30 m, up to 145 cm in diameter, buttresses of moderate size, spreading out as large surface roots, outer bark grey to purplish-brown, rough and rather finely longitudinally fissured.
• Leaves 9-12 cm × 3-5 cm, oblong to narrowly obovate, densely golden-yellow lepidote beneath, with 18-28 pairs of secondary veins, depressed above.
• Flower bud lanceolate, acute, stamens about 36, stylopodium subcylindrical, densely shortly golden-brown tomentose.

A. grossivenia grows in lowland dipterocarp forest on sandy clay soils at low altitude. The density of the wood is 555-895 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

30, 89, 100, 258, 461, 561, 748, 804.

• Anisoptera

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