Shorea blumutensis (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea blumutensis Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 236, pl. 20 (1932).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: riung daun lebar, temberas (north-eastern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti kelim (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia and north-eastern Sumatra.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 35 m tall with bole of 60 cm or more in diameter, twigs fulvous-tomentose.
• Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, 8-17 cm × 3-6.5 cm, with 14-16 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface shiny, petiole 12-22 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium narrowly ovoid.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9 cm × 1.8 cm.

S. blumutensis occurs in lowland dipterocarp forest up to 500 m altitude. The density of the wood is 870-910 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

253, 258, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)