Shorea fallax (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea fallax Meijer

Protologue: Acta Bot. Neerl. 12: 335. pl. 7 (1963).

Synonyms

• Shorea oleosa Meijer (1963).

Vernacular names

• Brunei: engkabang layar, mentalun, meranti sepit undang
• Indonesia: kontoi, tuntong seluing (Kalimantan)
• Malaysia: engkabang layar, engkabang pinang (Sarawak), seraya daun kasar (Sabah).

Distribution

Borneo.

Uses

The timber is used as light red meranti.

Observations

• A medium-sized to very large tree up to 60 m tall with bole up to 125 cm in diameter, buttresses up to 2 m high, bark shallowly fissured and flaked.
• Leaves broadly oblong to ovate, 12-24 cm × 5.5-11 cm, with 15-19 pairs of secondary veins, scabrid rufous-brown tomentose beneath.
• Stamens 15, anthers oblong with long, slender appendages, stylopodium pear-shaped.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 5 cm × 0.8 cm.

S. fallax is locally frequent on clay soils in mixed dipterocarp forest on well-drained flat or hilly sites up to 600 m altitude. The density of the resinous wood is 560-690 kg/m³at 15% moisture content.

Selected sources

30, 89, 100, 258, 476, 748.

Main genus page

• Shorea (red meranti)

Authors

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