Shorea flemmichii (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea flemmichii Sym.

Protologue: Gard. Bull. Str. Settl. 10: 378, pl. 26 (1939).

• Brunei: kayu raya, meranti raya
• Malaysia: meranti raya (Sarawak).

Sarawak and Brunei.

Locally the timber is an important source of dark red meranti.

• A very large tree up to 70 m tall with bole up to 255 cm in diameter, buttresses stout, up to 1.5 m high, bark dark, deeply fissured, flaky.
• Leaves broadly elliptical or ovate, 5-9 cm × 3-4.5 cm, with 14-17 pairs of secondary veins, lower surface golden-tawny tomentose.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with long, slender appendages, stylopodium indistinct.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes up to 6.5 cm × 1.5 cm.

S. flemmichii is locally abundant and occurs on deep yellow sandy soils and coastal hills below 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is about 850 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content.

30, 89, 258, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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