Shorea faguetiana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea faguetiana Heim

Protologue: Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 975 (1891).

Synonyms

• Shorea ridleyana King (1893) p.p.

Vernacular names

• Indonesia: bangkirai guruk, karambuku lahung, paramuku (South Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: damar (hitam) siput (Peninsular), lun siput (Sarawak), seraya kuning siput (Sabah)
• Thailand: kalo.

Distribution

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as yellow meranti. Lighter-coloured forms are sometimes traded as white meranti. The dammar is of a fairly good quality and is used locally for torches, e.g. in Sumatra. Illipe nuts may be collected from the trees.

Observations

• A medium-sized to large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 145(-175) cm in diameter, and short stout buttresses up to 1.5 m high.
• Leaves elliptical to oblong-lanceolate or ovate, 7-12 cm × 3-5 cm, with 9-12 pairs of secondary veins, glabrous, petiole 10-15 mm long.
• Stamens 15, stylopodium conical.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 6 cm × 1.2 cm.

S. faguetiana is common on well-drained clay soils on undulating land and especially ridges at 150-700(-1000) m altitude. The density of the wood is 400-835 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 102, 162, 253, 258, 297, 344, 417, 461, 476, 601, 628, 677, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (yellow meranti)

Authors

• M.S.M. Sosef (selection of species)