Anisoptera marginata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera marginata Korth.

Protologue: Temminck, Verh. Natuurl. Gesch. Ned. Overz. Bez., Botanie, Kruidk.: 66 (1841).

• Anisoptera grandiflora Brandis (1895).

• Brunei: mersawa paya
• Indonesia: mersawa tenam (Sumatra, Kalimantan), resak pantai (Sumatra), ketimpun (South Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: mersawa paya (Peninsular), pangiran kerangas (Sabah).

Peninsular Malaysia, Bangka, eastern Sumatra and Borneo.

The wood is used as mersawa, especially for house building.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, bole branchless for 15-25 m and up to 135 cm in diameter, with buttresses up to 3 m high and spreading out up to 1.5 m.
• Leaves 7-10 cm × 3.5-4.5 cm, oblong to obovate, densely golden-brown lepidote beneath, with 10-14 pairs of secondary veins.
• Flower bud lanceolate, acute, stamens about 25, stylopodium cylindrical, shortly densely tomentose.

A. marginata is widespread but rarely common and grows in mixed peat-swamp forest and locally in heath forest on podzols, up to 1200 m altitude. The density of the wood is 520-800 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

30, 100, 258, 297, 417, 442, 461, 561, 677, 736, 748, 804.

• Anisoptera

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