Shorea bracteolata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea bracteolata Dyer

Protologue: Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 305 (1874).

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bunyau (East Kalimantan), damar kedontang (general), ngerawan bunga (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: badau betul (Sarawak), melapi pa'ang (Sabah), meranti pa'ang (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo.

Uses

S. bracteolata is an important source of white meranti timber, especially in Peninsular Malaysia. The pale dammar is used locally for torches.

Observations

• A medium-sized to very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole branchless for 23-30 m and up to 165 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 3 m high.
• Leaves oblong-ovate to elliptical, thinly leathery, 9-14 cm × 4-6 cm, with 12-16 pairs of secondary veins, petiole slender, 1-2 cm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 10 cm × 1.7 cm.

S. bracteolata is variable and occurs on well-drained soils on coastal hills and undulating land up to 600 m altitude. The density of the wood is 510-840 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 102, 141, 253, 258, 297, 318, 413, 417, 461, 514, 644, 677, 743, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)