Shorea coriacea (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea coriacea Burck

Protologue: Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 6: 214 (1887).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti tangkai panjang
• Indonesia: lampong mengkabang (south-eastern Kalimantan), meranti jurai, samar benua (West Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: meranti tangkai panjang (Sarawak), seraya tangkai panjang (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as dark red meranti.

Observations

• A large tree up to 50 m tall with bole of up to 145 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves subpeltate, ovate, 10-15 cm × 5-8 cm, with 16-20 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath, petiole 2.5-4 cm long.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with long slender appendages, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9 cm × 1.5 cm.

S. coriacea occurs in heath forest on podzolic soils or on ultrabasic rocks up to 1000 m altitude. The density of the wood is 625-865 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 258, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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