Shorea curtisii (PROSEA)

• Brunei: seraya
• Indonesia: meranti merah tua
• Malaysia: seraya (Malay, Peninsular), jarang (Sakai, Peninsular), meranti seraya (Sarawak)
• Thailand: saya-daeng, saya-luang (Thai, peninsular).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, the Riau and Lingga Archipelago and Borneo.

The wood is an important and valued source of dark red meranti. A resin can be obtained from the tree but it is of little value.

• A large or very large tree up to 70 m tall with bole branchless for 18-28 m and up to 220 cm in diameter, buttresses prominent, up to 2.5 m high.
• Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 6-9 cm × 2.5-3.5 cm, with 9-11 pairs of secondary veins not prominent beneath, lower surface pale pink to grey scaly.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium present.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 7 cm × 1 cm.

S. curtisii is common and occurs often gregarious, typically on ridges in hill dipterocarp forest in Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra; also on deep and dry soils on coastal hills up to 850 m altitude throughout its range. The density of the wood is 490-815 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

30, 89, 101, 102, 136, 253, 258, 297, 318, 413, 417, 514, 628, 632, 677, 716, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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