Shorea beccariana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea beccariana Burck

Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 6: 213 (1887).

Synonyms

• Shorea franchetiana Heim (1891).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: kawang pinang, meranti langgai
• Indonesia: tengkawang tengkal, engkabang maha (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: abang (Dusun, northern Borneo), meranti langgai (Sabah, Sarawak).

Distribution

Northern Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti. The fruits are collected as illipe nuts.

Observations

• A very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 110 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high, bark laminated.
• Leaves elliptical to ovate, 11-20 cm × 5.5-7 cm, with 11-14 pairs of secondary veins.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long and slender appendages, stylopodium cylindrical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 19 cm × 2.7 cm.

S. beccariana is common on deeply leached soils in the lowlands and on shale or sandstone ridges up to 1350 m altitude. The density of the wood is 520-800 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 258, 476, 514, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)