Anisoptera laevis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera laevis Ridley

Protologue: Fl. Mal. Pen. 1: 219 (1922).

• Brunei: mersawa durian
• Malaysia: mersawa durian, medang sawa (Peninsular), pengiran durian (Sabah).

Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Sabah).

The wood is used as mersawa.

• A very large tree up to 65 m tall, bole tall and straight, up to 200 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 15 m high, spreading out up to 4 m.
• Leaves 7-11 cm × 3-4 cm, oblong to obovate, rusty to golden lepidote beneath, with 10-14 pairs of secondary veins.
• Flower bud subglobose, stamens 15, stylopodium disk-like, glabrous.

A. laevis is widespread and is often common in inland lowland and hill forest up to 900 m altitude. The density of the wood is 510-815 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

30, 89, 235, 258, 297, 417, 442, 677, 748.

• Anisoptera

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