Shorea dealbata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea dealbata Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 192, pl. 14 (1932).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: meranti bumbong
• Malaysia: badau batu (Sarawak), meranti bumbong (Peninsular).

Distribution

Peninsular Malaysia (Pahang), Lingga and north-western Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as white meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole up to 80 cm in diameter and inconspicuous buttresses.
• Leaves ovate to elliptical, 8-16 cm × 4-7.5 cm, with (11-)20-24 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface pale pink lepidote, petiole stout, 1.5-2.5 cm long.
• Stamens 17, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 9 cm × 1.3 cm.

S. dealbata is locally common on yellow sandy soils in flat coastal swamps and on low hills up to 150 m altitude. The density of the wood is 560-870 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

31, 89, 253, 258, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (white meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)