Shorea acuminatissima (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea acuminatissima Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 340, pl. 23 (1938).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: damar hitam runching
• Indonesia: damar pakit (northern Kalimantan), kalepek (East Kalimantan), pakit ketuyung (South Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: barun runching, lun runching (Sarawak), seraya kuning runching (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 76 m tall with tall bole up to 190 cm in diameter, and buttresses up to 2 m high, bark closely square-section fissured, with narrow flat ridges.
• Leaves ovate, 7-10 cm × 3-4 cm, with 9-12 pairs of secondary veins scabrid tomentose beneath, petiole 10-15 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium narrowly ovoid.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 6 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. acuminatissima occurs on clayey soils, on hills and ridges usually near the coast and up to 500(-1400) m altitude. The density of the wood is 350-700 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 253, 476, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)