Dryobalanops keithii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dryobalanops keithii Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 10: 379 (1939).

• Malaysia: kapur gumpait, kapur daun besar (Sabah).

Sabah.

The timber is used as kapur.

• A medium-sized to fairly large tree up to 37 m tall, with bole up to 70 cm in diameter and often of poor form.
• Leaves narrowly oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 14-33 cm × 5-10 cm, with an up to 10 mm long acumen, glabrous and with depressed veins on upper surface.
• Fruit calyx lobes broadly spatulate, up to 4 cm × 2 cm, bordering an up to 6 mm deep and up to 10 mm wide cup.

D. keithii is locally common and always occurs near water on undulating land, up to 250 m altitude. The density of the wood is 700-835 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

100, 561, 748.

• Dryobalanops

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)