Shorea balanocarpoides (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea balanocarpoides Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 9: 330 (1938).

Synonyms

• Balanocarpus pahangensis Foxw. (1932),
• Shorea dolichocarpa v. Slooten (1956).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: damar hitam gondol
• Malaysia: damar hitam katup, damar katup, merawan lampong (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti. Fruits are collected locally as illipe nuts.

Observations

• A small to large tree up to 45 m tall with bole up to 65 cm in diameter, and small buttresses up to 1 m high.
• Leaves oblong to broadly ovate, usually with an unequal base, 6-12 cm × 2-7 cm, with 5-7 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous, petiole 10-20 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium conical.
• Fruit calyx lobes equal, up to 5 mm long.

S. balanocarpoides is fairly common on yellow sandy loam on undulating country and ridges up to 700 m altitude. The density of the wood is 630-865 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 102, 253, 258, 514, 677, 745, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)