Heritiera aurea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera aurea Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 55 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 518 (1959).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: papungu merah (Kalimantan).

Distribution

Borneo (Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan).

Uses

The timber is used as mengkulang.

Observations

• A fairly large tree, up to 40 m tall with up to 20 m branchless bole, 80 cm in diameter, buttresses tall, up to 4.5 m.
• Leaves simple, densely scaly beneath, petioles 3-5 cm long, stout.
• Fruit with large wing, glabrous.

H. aurea resembles H. simplicifolia, except for the indumentum of the leaves, and has been confused frequently with the latter species. The tree is locally common on leached loamy soil in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 500 m altitude.

Selected sources

33, 100, 378, 447.

Main genus page

• Heritiera

Authors

• R.H.M.J. Lemmens (selection of species)