Shorea dasyphylla (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea dasyphylla Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 224, pl. 18 (1932).

• Indonesia: meranti balur, meranti gombung, meranti sabut (Sumatra)
• Malaysia: meranti batu (Peninsular, Sarawak), meranti sabut (Peninsular), seraya batu (Sabah).

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and north-western Borneo.

The timber is used as light red meranti.

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 45 m tall, with bole branchless for 18-28 m and up to 115 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 1.8 m high, bark closely, deeply fissured and dark.
• Leaves ovate to elliptical, 7-14 cm × 3-6 cm, with 11-15 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium present.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. dasyphylla occurs on well-drained flat country and low hills in mixed dipterocarp forest up to 700(-1000) m altitude. The density of the wood is 335-690 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

31, 89, 100, 102, 125, 253, 258, 515, 628, 677, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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