Anisoptera megistocarpa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Anisoptera megistocarpa v. Slooten

Protologue: Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 8: 12, f. 2 (1926).

• Indonesia: beurmen (Aceh, Sumatra)
• Malaysia: mersawa merah, mersawa api, sepah petri (Peninsular).

Southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra.

The timber is used as mersawa.

• A large tree with bole up to 120 cm in diameter and prominently buttressed.
• Leaves (5.5-)9-20 cm × (2.5-)3.5-8 cm, narrowly oblong-elliptical to oblanceolate, dark golden-brown lepidote beneath, with 23-33 pairs of secondary veins prominent beneath and depressed above.
• Flower bud lanceolate, stamens about 60, stylopodium ovoid, pubescent.

A. megistocarpa grows scattered in mixed dipterocarp forest on well-drained undulating land and low hills. The density of the wood is 575-840 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

258, 442, 677, 736, 748.

• Anisoptera

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