Dyera costulata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Dyera costulata (Miq.) Hook.f.

Protologue: Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 293 (1882).

Alstonia costulata Miq. (1861), Dyera laxiflora Hook.f. (1882).

• Hill jelutong (En)
• Indonesia: jelutung bukit (general), melabuai (Sumatra), pantung gunung (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: jelutong bukit (general), jelutong pipit, jelutong daun lebar (Peninsular)
• Thailand: teen-pet daeng (peninsular), ye-luu-tong, luu-tong (Malay, peninsular).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo, and intervening islands.

As given for the genus.

A large to very large tree, up to 65 m tall, bole branchless for up to 30 m, up to 250 cm in diameter, without buttresses; leaves elliptical to obovate or narrowly so, rounded to subcordate at base, short acuminate to rounded at apex, secondary veins well-spaced. D. costulata occurs in primary lowland or hill forest in well-drained locations, up to 300 m altitude. The density of the wood is 220-560 kg/m³at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

17, 26, 69, 70, 77, 78, 99, 115, 175, 234, 241, 340, 403, 432, 445, 463, 465, 466, 526, 575, 595, 686, 703, 705, 739.