Shorea bentongensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea bentongensis Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 169, pl. 12 (1932).

Synonyms

• Shorea pahangensis Foxw. (1932).

Vernacular names

• Malaysia: bok, meranti mengkai, meranti sega (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree with bole branchless for a considerable height and exceeding 75 cm in diameter, buttresses inconspicuous, bark more or less smooth, finely longitudinally cracked.
• Leaves broadly ovate, 7-15 cm × 4-8 cm, with 13-16 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface glabrous, petiole 8-13 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium cylindrical, tapering.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 7.5 cm × 0.8 cm.

S. bentongensis is locally common and favours low-lying land and deep valleys in hilly country. The density of the wood is 550-755 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

253, 258, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)