Shorea hemsleyana (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Shorea hemsleyana (King) King ex Foxw.

Protologue: Mal. For. Rec. 10: 167 (1932).

• Balanocarpus hemsleyanus King (1893),
• Shorea grandiflora Brandis (1895),
• Pachychlamys hemsleyanus (King) Ridley (1922).

• Brunei: chengal pasir daun besar, meranti gading
• Indonesia: meranti kunyit, meranti rawang (eastern Sumatra)
• Malaysia: chengal pasir daun besar, meranti daun besar (Peninsular), meranti gading (Sarawak)
• Thailand: phayom-khao.

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

The timber is used as light or dark red meranti.

• A medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall with bole branchless for 9-21 m and up to 85 cm in diameter, buttresses low or medium-sized.
• Leaves oblong, 14-35 cm × 4-15 cm, with 14-17 pairs of secondary veins, the lower surface hairy.
• Stamens 15, anthers subglobose with short appendages, stylopodium absent.
• Larger fruit calyx lobes small, up to 2.5 cm × 1.8 cm.

S. hemsleyana has two subspecies and is found locally in shallow peat swamps and on leached sandy soils up to 400 m altitude. The density of the wood is 675-835 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

89, 102, 137, 253, 258, 297, 417, 514, 628, 677, 748.

• Shorea (red meranti)

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