Hopea montana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Hopea montana Sym.

Protologue: Journ. Mal. Br. Roy. As. Soc. 19, 2: 141, pl. 1A (1941).

• Malaysia: merawan gunong (Peninsular), selangan bukit (Sabah).

Peninsular Malaysia, central Sumatra and Sabah.

The timber is used as merawan.

• A medium-sized tree, bole often poorly shaped with a diameter of up to 60 cm and prominent buttresses, tending to be stilted, bark surface smooth, chocolate brown, inner bark dull brown tinged pink, sapwood pale yellow; tree entirely glabrous.
• Leaves ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate, 6.5-9 cm × 2-4 cm, thin leathery, base abruptly cuneate, acumen up to 1 cm long, venation subdryobalanoid, midrib obscurely depressed above, secondary veins about 14 pairs, arched, ascending, with many shorter veins in between.
• Flowers unknown.
• 2 longer fruit calyx lobes up to 5 cm × 1.2 cm, subacute, tapering to base, 3 shorter ones up to 10 mm × 3 mm, ovate, frequently shortly winged apically.

H. montana is rare and occurs on hill slopes in dipterocarp forest up to 1200 m altitude. The density of the wood is 785-915 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

100, 258, 476, 677, 748.

• Hopea (merawan)

• K.M. Kochummen (selection of species),
• F.T. Frietema (selection of species)