Heritiera borneensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Heritiera borneensis (Merr.) Kosterm.

Protologue: Penerb. Madj. Ilmu Peng. Indon. 1: 56 (1959). Also in: Reinwardtia 4: 519 (1959).

• Tarrietia borneensis Merr. (1918),
• Tarrietia unifoliolata Ridley (1920).

Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo; possibly also Sulawesi.

The timber is used as mengkulang.

• A medium-sized to large tree, up to 45 m tall with bole up to 75 cm in diameter, buttresses small or absent.
• Leaves 1-3-foliolate, glabrous, petioles 2-6(-9) cm long, slender.
• Panicles lax, up to 18 cm long.
• Fruit with large wing, glabrous.

H. borneensis resembles H. javanica but lacks the tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins, and often has simple leaves. This species is locally common, e.g. in Peninsular Malaysia, elsewhere apparently rare, e.g. in Sarawak and Sabah. It occurs scattered in mixed lowland dipterocarp forest.

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• Heritiera

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